The project involved taking photographs of antique objects and artefacts in some of the antique shops and antique warehouses of Jew Town, in Kochi; whose owners had granted me permission to photograph from their collections.
My initial intention was to produce works along the lines I had developed in my on-going 'HISTOIRES...' series
(see: histoires-museographies.blogspot.com).
Things worked out differently, however, as after producing a few 'Histoires...', I began to photograph individual objects—in particular MASKS:
which I presented as if floating in individual VIRTUAL SHOWCASES, against a white background:
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This transition from STAGE to SHOWCASE marked the begining of a new series, titled 'MUSEO-GRAPHIES', in which museum objects are presented in such a way as to tell STORIES about HISTORY, rather than to present themselves as cultural artefacts or 'Art' objects.
Upon seeing this work, one of the dealers, who intends to open a MUSEUM in an Eighteenth Century warehouse, asked me whether I would be interested in curating the collections according to similar principles: a case of LIFE imitating ART...
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