Emptying the Shelves - Tamarah Kerr de Haan, Clémentine Deliss and Mirjam Shatanawi Youkilis embraces the real by

Youkilis embraces the real by engaging with both ephemerality and sincerity

Her lover escapes the city to see her there and Ernaux seems to survive only in expectation of these encounters

The undulating stems and textured caps – the act of pushing through and returning to the earth – evoke the eroticised

contemporaneous experiments in concrete poetry and the British conceptual art practices of the 1960s and 1970s

Emptying the Shelves - Tamarah Kerr de Haan, Clémentine Deliss and Mirjam Shatanawi Youkilis embraces the real byEmptying the Shelves traces how Dutch ethnographic museums among them the Dutch National Museum of World Cultures and its predecessors have shaped and reshaped their displays over the past century. Drawing on a trove of archival exhibition photographs and contemporary essays, it charts the transition from crowded cabinets to austere white cube displays, with most objects now in storage facilities. With texts by Tamarah Kerr de Haan, Clmentine Deliss