MakeATrade

Digital collage, archive box, a4 printer paper, sellotape Installed at Petrie Museum of Archaeology, London. 2019. This work was created for an installation at the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archeology, UCL, London. It began when an archive box on a shelf in the Museum labelled 'empty' was not allowed to be moved for the installation of work just in case it housed a valuable ancient Egyptian artifact. The myth of this empty cardboard box sparked conversations concerning the sometimes opaque bureaucratic systems in museum administration, and whether they were necessary for the preservation of relics and cultural histories. The work is printed onto 9 sheets of printer paper as a representation of the merging of dull offices with energetic artifacts. The box is either disintegrated in meaning and physical form as it is traveling, or it is eaten from the inside by parasitic pixels of an unknown provenance. The components of water transporting hang onto each other as the nile flows from the empty box, like a flag for the encased artefacts or nothings within it.