'It is the year 2052: museums are becoming obsolete and art is slipping out of human consciousness. A team of curators have retrieved some treasures from the stores of the Centre Pompidou, Paris, the Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK) in Frankfurt and Tate. Their ideal museum is offered up as a magic cabinet of memories. Visitors must hold those memories in their hearts and minds to preserve whatever it is that makes art important to civilisation.'
The exhibition invited audiences into a fictional scenario in which the exhibited artworks would cease to exist, and asked visitors to memorise the works to secure their future preservation - drawing on Ray Bradbury’s 1953 sci-fi novel Fahrenheit 451, the tale of a distant future in which works of literature are banned and the only way to save them is to learn them by heart.
A highly unique concept for an exhibition - removes the line between artist and viewer and openly invites an audience into a gallery space, a space which is usually exclusively reserved for those in the art world. The gallery itself looses some sort of integrity as a place for exhibiting, but in turn becomes a space that allows open communication, performance, action, and words.
Artist becomes viewer and viewer becomes artist.