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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.

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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.