notes, 2008

notes,2008

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Notes, 2008 comes out of Bouza’s long-standing fascination with collections and comprises a large-scale image depicting over four hundred photographs of life-size crumpled Post-it notes. Together, they constitute a calendar of the year 2008; rather than simply restricting the classification to one Post-it note a day, some dates contain more than one or none at all in order to create a sense of narrative. This suggestion is further emphasized by the crumpled state of the notes and the partially concealed text.

The formal presentation of the collection of notes for analysis and observation indicates their significance, as does the declaration of this image of the collection as a work of art, but what is the source of that importance? Notes, 2008 explores the point where the responsibility for that significance lies: it may be with the collector, the collection, the creator or the viewer. This project also raises questions about what constitutes a collection and how the decontextualisation inherent to the scientific approach to display used by many museums simultaneously obstructs and enables the codification of knowledge.