PNEUMOTHORAX A perforation in the lung-archive

PNEUMOTHORAX A perforation in the lung-archive

Artist and educator Jordi Ferreiro (Barcelona, 1982) has immersed himself in this archive to research the Museum’s long relationship with education. A pneumothorax is a perforation that causes a leak and brings to light the photographs, documents, materials and experiences that have swung between the artistic and the educational since 1945 and through 2000.

The lung-archive is an actual and real intermediate space that contains all the documentation from the Museum’s different departments that are awaiting classification and encoding. Referring to it in this way makes us think of the Museum as a living being and all of the documents it creates as its oxygen.

At a time of intensive thought about the role of education at many different levels, and celebrating the Museum’s 40 plus years of educational work, the intention of this ‘leak’ in the archive-lung is to generate a time for the cultural institution to pause and reflect by reviewing its history.

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