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In 1994 GEORGINA STARR
(British,
b. 1968)
was invited to create a public artwork for The
Hague as part of a series called "The Seventh
Museum." Arriving with no preconceived project,
she obsessively collected documents of her loneliness
(the toys she made, the games she played, the
restaurants in which she ate alone every evening)
and her anxiety about the upcoming exhibition
(projects begun and abandoned, souvenirs nervously
collected). Eventually, she decided to organize and
install these diaristic materials in the gallery as her
contribution to the serieswhat amounts to an intimate
artistic autobiography. Starr has elaborated on the
original project by creating from it an intriguing
archive of photographs of the individual components,
grouped into nine thematic sub-collections and
accompanied by explanatory materials. Above: Detail of
the key to The Nine Collections of the Seventh Museum.
1994. The Museum of Modern Art. Gift of Barbara and
Max Pine in memory of Eugene M. Schwartz.
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