Healing the Museum - Grace Ndiritu
Healing the Museum / by Grace Ndiritu
<p>conversations with Brook Andrew, Gareth Bell-Jones, Philippe Van Cauteren ; written contr. by Ifeanyi Awachie, Ann Hoste, Hammad Nasar. - Berlin ; Lausanne : Motto Books, 2023. - 144 p. : ill. ; 30,5 cm<br>Includes notes</p>
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Healing The Museum is a monograph looking at Grace Ndiritu's diverse practice over the last twenty years. The publication coincides with her eponymous exhibition at S.M.A.K.-Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst in Ghent. In the run-up to the construction of a new museum, she worked with all employees and the public around a ‘Spiritual Inventory of A 21st Century Museum' developing thoughts about the interpretation of the museum of the future. Under the title Healing The Museum, SMAK presented an overview of the artist's varied practice in recent years (Apr.1 - Sep. 10 2023). Performance, film, shamanism, social actions, publications, textile work, collection research were part of this layered exhibition project in which the artist advocates revitalizing and making ethical the museum space and, by extension, society as a whole. Ndiritu took visitors on a holistic journey through the museum galleries in which she addressed themes such as protest, ecology, inclusion and sexuality. The trajectory ended at The Temple, an architecture designed by the artist for a critical collection presentation, but also a spiritual space for meeting, transition and healing.
