Emotional Objects
Ellen SampsonAbstract
Emotional Objects is an extended body of practice generated during a fellowship at the Costume Institute of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2018-19) and an artist’s residency at Bard Graduate Center, New York (2019- 2020). By exploring the selection/inclusion practices of archives and museums – the goal of this project was to initiate new conversations about used clothes as records of lived experience, and how these indexical objects create emotional responses to both our own and other’s used clothing.