collection

1001
Size, 43,5×23,3cm.

1002
Size, 52,3×36,1cm.

1003
Size, 62×47,3cm.

1004
Size, 52,9×33,2cm.

1005
Size, 48,1×37,7cm.

1006
Size, 50,5×32,7cm.

1007
Size, 57×43,4cm.

1008
Size, 43×21,4cm.

1009
Size, 69×44,2cm.

1010
Size, 51,2×31,7cm.

1011
Size, 45×31,8cm.

1012
Size, 45×27,5cm.

1013
Size, 43,6×26,8cm.

1015

Size, 47×30,3cm.

The project Collection consists of fifteen photographs. Each of these images depicts legumes, nuts or raisins which are enumerated. In the first picture of the project one thousand and one items appear in the image, and in each photograph of the series one more is added. Each element shown is classified and ordered in reference to the recollection process used in the land notebooks of the XIX century.

The different elements are presented as catalogued specimens for analysis and observation in a way that indicates their significance, but it is also through this mechanism of representation that the ideology of the museums and the prerequisites of their collections are exposed and questioned. This project also prompts intriguing questions about who is behind this collection and what it represents, at the same time that it makes explicit the museum´s role in collecting, classifying and displaying objects.

The result is a set of fifteen images, where the items are in life size scale and each photograph is placed in a walnut box of ten centimeters and situated on the top of a plinth.