vitrine 448

Artist/Creator: Jamelie Hassan (Artist)
Date: 1987
ID #: BG6002

Physical Description

Medium: gelatin silver print
Support: card
Dimensions: 23.2 cm 31.6 cm 2.6 cm (Object)
Folio)
Object Description: Jamelie Hassan’s Vitrine 448 (1987) is based on Hassan’s attempt to visit and then photograph Vitrine 448 in the old Musee de l’Homme in Paris, the ethnographic museum, which is now the Musee du Quai Branly. Vitrine 448 was where they kept the objects that Claude Levi-Strauss collected in 1933 when he went to Brazil. That journey to Brazil is written about in his absolute Triste Tropiques, so there are 19 prints and they alternate between photographs of the vitrine and Hassan’s account of trying to photograph it, being told not to photograph it, getting permission to go into the archive, with other photographs that she has found of the Brazilian people that Claude Levi-Strauss met and tried to study.

History

Collection: Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery Permanent Collection
Credit Line: Gift of Tariq Hassan Gordon, 2020
Related Exhibitions: Stations: Some Recent Acquisitions

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