Eight interventions at the Medicine Palace/2014

Dellekamp invited eight professionals whose activities could be related to medicine, in order to select a series of objects that are part of the uncataloged collection of the Museum of Medicine, to later present them within a display case. The particular choices of instruments, jars, devices, and other utensils, as well as their arrangement within the display case, eloquently reflect the rationality typical of an anthropologist, an antiquarian, a student, a doctor, a supplier of goods, and an industrial designer, among others.

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The conclusion of this editorial project closes the cycle of an open-process work that is part of Marianna Dellekamp's work on the development and identity of the art object.

The installation Press was presented in a first stage at the Nina Menocal Gallery in 2010 where it was shown in process during the exhibition period. After a phase of collecting promotional prints in galleries and museums, the artist classified and relocated them. This material on one hand represented the legitimization of the art object within the market, and on the other acted as a mechanism for the dissemination of artists and their work, as well as the ideas surrounding it. By re-contextualizing the prints and publications within the exhibition space, they gained a new life. 

In a second stage at the Museum of Modern Art in 2013, a sculpture-like paper roll of 50 x 70 x 97 cms, 789 kgs, resulting from the recycling of the accumulated paper for the original installation, was presented.

The paper used for printing this catalog comes from this roll, meaning it concentrates, recycles and  symbolically re-circulates that information concerning dozens of artistic projects, including those of the artist. 

Not only the content but also the material with which the book is made is part of the research and production of Marianna Dellekamp who considers the process and collaborations as a core part of an aesthetic result.

GRACIELA KASEP

Collecting / Thinking: 8 Interventions to the collection of the Museum of Medicine

José Raúl PérezBased on a selection of objects present in the storerooms of the Museum of Medicine —the rejected objects, those that did not complete the path to the exhibition halls and display cases, those considered, perhaps, as less significant—, Dellekamp speculates on the fact that these pieces can only be endowed with value and considered as part of the collection when shown to the public.

Thus, in the artist's words, the project, “reflects on the identity of the cultural object, understanding identity as the set of traits or information that individualize and distinguishn”.

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