Camulodunum, Firstsite, Colchester, September 25, 2011–January 22, 2012

Aleksandra Mir

2011–12

An exhibition invitation card for Aleksandra Mir’s Camulodunum that uses a photographic arrangement of fragmented, worn objects to suggest archaeological ruin and contested local history.

You’re struck by a rusted car door and a red, helmet-like scrap set on a pale tiled floor, cropped and overlaid with a purple announcement block and the oversized, translucent word “firstsite,” so everyday detritus reads like excavated relics.

As a piece of ephemera, the card shows how contemporary artists and museums use printed matter and found imagery to stage narratives—collapsing publicity, documentation, and artwork to make modern waste read as historical trace.

Palette

Exhibitions

Projects: Magdalena Jetelová

1987

New Acquisitions: Three Mirós

1972

Collage: Selections from the Permanent Collection

1988

Tapestries by Helena Hernmarck

1973