Exhibitions Quotes

“In the spirit of being a reflective practitioner of ourselves we must notice your own behavior as an educator and realize how it influences other. Recognize your privileges: race, gender, ability, career, citizenship, language is all privilege. Imagine how you feel in the visitors shoes and adjust to best help them process and contextualize.”
― Monica O Montgomery

“Tough topics are only tough for those who don't want to approach conversation, who don't like problematizing the status quo and nuancing the narrative.”
― Monica O Montgomery

“Dreams are the museum for artists.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Oneironaut’s Diary

“Museums always take a point of view by what they choose to exhibit and what they decide not to exhibit.”
― Lonnie G. Bunch III

“Exhibitions are precisely what we
shouldn’t trust, because they are so seductive. We go into a room that we can only walk through in a certain way, and there’s a certain lighting scheme, and it might smell a certain way. Whereas when we read something on a blog, we do that in our own home, in the conditions that we have chosen, and we can determine how our body is situated. We just can’t do those things in an exhibition.”
― Aaron Levy, Four Conversations on the Architecture of Discourse