The Case

‍Vitreous Stories (2019) was a collaborative response to Vitreous Bodies, a Culture& intervention at the Pitt Rivers Museum. This project involved the installation of two persons, and a series of objects, within one of the museum’s iconic Victorian vitrines. Through the placement of objects, Vitreous Bodies drew attention to the links between colonialism and museum collections, and the ways in which displays reinforce the Western gaze.

For Vitreous Stories, I invited each contributor to provide an object that holds a story. These items were curated within The Case, generating new and unexpected relationships. Like the stories uncovered through collating items in Vitreous Bodies, Vitreous Stories was an experiment in how new narratives might be formed from old ones, placed in relationship to one another, via the objects that contain them.

St Andrew’s Crossbreed (2019) was a series of assemblages reflecting on experiences shared by persons of colour with Scottish ancestry. Through the placement of objects, the work interrogated hidden historical narratives, ideas around cultural dissociation, and the sense of confusion and unbelonging that can arise from being a person of mixed heritage.