ABSTRACT

In the epilogue, curator Joanne Rosenthal shares a range of international examples from museums, artists, and sites of memory which, in one way or another, speak to the topic of exhibiting absence and loss. Rosenthal sets out a set of curatorial ten principles to consider when exhibiting absence and loss that might resonate more broadly and offer a menu of possibilities for application in diverse contexts. For a topic this complex, and from the length of the piece alone, it should be self-evident that this ‘menu’ of options is not intended in any way to be an exhaustive survey, but rather functions as an opportunity to consider the principles as broader strategies or to provoke further questions for the curator.