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Similarly, Andres Wertheim integrates these concepts into his work: “I merge in one photoframe both
planes of the visible reality – the audience in a museum’s room and the portrayed characters in the same
room’s walls -trying to create a dialogue between them. When the fusion works, I feel that the “spirits” of
the museum have finally allowed me to see them.”
Through this exhibition interactions between the living and the dead, the past and the present, and the
natural and the artificial create a shared dialogue about the function of museums and displays in the
human experience as it relates to the past and our environment. As professor and curator Alasdair Foster
puts it, “It is our mortality that measures time, not theirs. They haunt us not because they are dead, but
because they endure while we do not. We are the imaginative means by which they converse in this latter-
day agora. But, in the fleetingness of our existence, it is perhaps we who are more truly ghosts in the
museum.”
The exhibition will be on view from Thursday, January 30th, 2020 until Thursday, April 16th, 2020.
The Talk of the Town Hotel & Beach Club will host an opening reception with light refreshments on
Thursday, January 30th, 2019 from 7pm to 9pm.
