2009
<p><strong>Museum Diaries</strong> brings together images made since 2010 in galleries, storage areas, and working spaces across institutions in several countries. Shaped by her dual perspective as a photographer and conservator, the series explores the museum not only as a place of exhibition, but as a machinery of appearances and concealments. Packaging, reverses, frames, storage systems, and protected artworks reveal the quiet labour that makes their presentation to the public possible.</p><p>In parallel, the series portrays visitors from behind, absorbed or standing still before a work. Their bodies form involuntary relationships—at times intimate, humorous, or strange—with paintings, sculptures, and architecture: they extend them, contradict them, or seem momentarily to enter the scene. The photographs do not focus on the artwork in isolation, but on the act of looking and the small choreographies produced by the museum.</p><p>Between these two registers—what is exhibited and what remains outside the frame—the series constructs a fragmentary diary of the institution. The museum appears as a space in which objects and people are framed, moved, protected, and observed; a place where the aesthetic experience depends on a series of material and gestural operations that rarely become visible.</p><p>Rather than revealing a secret, <em>Museum Diaries</em> dwells on what usually goes unnoticed: the reverse side of images, waiting, distance, the gesture of contemplation, and the moment when the viewer also becomes part of the scene, disappearing into the crowd.<br></p>
