The project ‘Metamorphosis’ focuses on aesthetic sensibility and re-activating archival material as a form of resistance, using historical information to enable critical thinking and tease out ideas underlying key questions about colonial collections in museums today. The natural history museum is one of the sites in which to investigate and question the presence of living species and the authority of data linked to colonialism and coloniality.
Nuno Silas proposes to create an intersection related to the aesthetics of art rather than to ethnographic curiosity. He explores multiple forms of interpreting and re-socializing archival material in non-canonical ways using drawings, photographs, sounds, and performance.