2012, Series of 15 photographs, archival pigment print, 44 cm x 35 cm each
Objects from the series Aalto Objects are drawn from the home museum of architect Alvar Aalto. The work approaches the museum as an environment shaped by temporal, material, and institutional processes rather than as a stable historical representation. The home museum appears as a constructed habitat where private life, public history, and curatorial decisions intersect.
The museum exists through overlapping temporal layers: objects originally connected to Aalto and the house, items introduced later through donations, and elements produced through the museum’s ongoing operations. These layers do not form a fixed narrative but a shifting structure where meaning is continuously reorganized. The museum becomes a site where biography, preservation, and reinterpretation coexist and sometimes conflict.
Rather than reconstructing Aalto’s life, the work observes how it is continuously reconstructed through material remains, spatial arrangements, and acts of documentation.
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