Museum Filters 2016
The term degenerate art — adopted by the Nazi Party in the 1920s to label modern art they deemed unacceptable — served as the starting point for this research. Drawing from both her scientific background and an autobiographical experience in a museum in her hometown, Olga Permiakova playfully reimagines museums as vast filtering systems. Through personal appropriation, she explores the meta-structure of museums, questioning the ways in which they shape, classify, and control the perception of art.