Installatie van de Sultan van Boeton 1938

This is an installation of the Sultan of Boeton, from around 1938, presented in a photo album page of some kind. I see the layout of the album page itself as part of the art. It's like the brown paper is a ground for a painting and the photos are stuck down on it, glued down. Each photo is a mark, a gesture, carefully placed in relation to all the others. It reminds me of Kurt Schwitters’ collages – you know, the Dada artist who made art from found objects and scraps? I'm really drawn to the handwriting here too. It's light and kind of wispy, almost disappearing into the page. It's there but you could easily miss it. Like a memory half-forgotten. There's a real tenderness here, I think. It invites us to slow down, to consider the way the past is assembled, bit by bit, image by image, word by word.