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Exercises in Seeing


︎ INDEFINITELY POSTPONED DUE TO COVID-19
The Malcove Gallery at the Art Museum of the University of Toronto is the museum’s only cabineted climate-controlled gallery, and, since 1985, has been home to an eclectic collection of mostly early Christian and Byzantine artifacts dating between the 1st and 11th centuries CE. Since then, the museum has federated with other institutions and developed a mandate for contemporary art at odds with the Malcove. The gallery’s use is, however, legally dicated. This project attempts to enable the artifacts themselves to speak to contemporary concerns about museums by placing them in conversation with other artworks from the collection.

Crowd, 21st-century, Stephen Andrew Head of Serapis, 1st-century Head of the Buddha, 10th-century Head of a Nubian, 2nd-century Head of a woman, 2nd-century Head of a young boy, 3rd-century

Cabinet 10 of 17 Adam and Eve, 16th-century, Lucas Cranach the Elder Plum (from and some brought flowers: Plants from the New World), 21st-century, Ernest John Revell

Cabinet 11 of 17 Calendar icon, 16th-century Indians on Tour: War Dancer at the British Museum, 21st-century, Jeff Thomas

Cabinet 9 of 17 My First Woods, Ontario, 19th-century, William Edwin Atkinson Credit Indian Village, 1826 Historical Marker off the QEW Mississauga Ramp, 21st-century, Jeff Thomas


Project by Ameen Ahmed
/ 2022-2023 / Art Museum at the University of Toronto
/ tagged art, curation
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