Stories We Tell Ourselves
Aseel Alyaqoub, Sameer Farooq & Mirjam Linschooten, Jacqueline Hoang Nguyen, Emii Alrai
Foreman Gallery
October 21 – December 11, 2021
This group exhibition conceptualized questions how the museum’s history as a colonial tool for Western pedagogy influences the stories we tell. To elucidate the unseen politics within the display systems and political agendas of cultural institutions, the four featured artists/artist duos appropriate various museological practices—collection, didactics, video, sculpture, presentation techniques and artifacts—to self-referentially question how such institutions dictate politicized stories. Stories We Tell Ourselves undermines the museum’s colonial past and current pedagogy by probing how these settings shape public opinion and social understanding of different histories and contemporary conditions.
