Exhibition presented by the Musée d’ethnographie de Neuchâtel (MEN), Switzerland, from June 25, 2005 to August 1, 2006.

 

I collaborated in the design, writing and research.

 

The MEN is an atypical ethnographic museum that is defined by exhibition principles that have provoked a small revolution in the field of museology. It is known for its brilliant exhibition designs, its intelligent and rigorous exhibition discourse, and the way it uses its ethnogaphic collections to illustrate a contemporary narrative.

 

In Remise en boîtes, the museum invoked the rite of the second funeral, found in different ethnic groups, to address the mourning process in the context of the increasing number of commemorations in our societies.

 

“This exhibition questions how mourning and the construction of a collective memory are based on traces of tragic events which are sometimes deliberately erased, but more generally retold, commented upon, circulated, analyzed and transformed by victims, witnesses, the media, writers and representatives of the entertainment industry.“

- Excerpt from the exhibition publication.