Interesting Things – Preview

installation, publication, video essay (2025)
@Royal Academy of Art (Graduation Work)

Des Choses Intéressantes – Interesting Things – is the title of an envelope containing 59 photographic negatives from Palestine. It was labelled this way by Dutch photographer Frank Scholten, who took the images during his travels in the 1920s. Now housed in the Special Collections of Leiden University Libraries, these images reflect colonial perspectives and the appropriating gaze cast upon the so-called "Holy Land". At the same time, they depict scenes of Palestinian life before the Nakba, preserving what is continually threatened with erasure. Salome Erni’s work is to be understood as an insight into ongoing conversations.


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