Objects from the front line bear bloodstained witness – not just to what happened, but to Ukraine’s very existence, says the Guardian’s chief culture writer, Charlotte Higgins
for this year’s museum of the year prize. “We make things visible. That’s what we do,” said Sally Shaw, director of Colchester’s contemporary art gallery Firstsite. “We put things into the public realm. And we do that with other people; it’s a collaborative effort. So what we have to concentrate on is: what it is that we want to make public? And how do we do it?”
The IWM’s Troubles exhibition addresses some of these issues by including “curator’s notes” – short wall-texts in which Craig Murray, who organised the show, explains his approach. At the same time, the exhibition acts above all as a convener of ordinary people’s voices, allowing them to play out through sound recordings in polyphonic disagreement.of the Troubles, have flooded through all parts of society, treading into this kind of contested area isn’t easy.
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