Museum of Love and Devotion
The Fairview Museum of History and Art holds the largest collection of folk objects in the Mountain West. Its heritage wing, The Museum of Love and Devotion, is housed in a finde siècle stone schoolhouse, situated on the institution’s property in Fairview, Utah. The expansive archive includes objects of historical significance, geologic and biologic specimens, and artwork, as well as other unclassifiable items, all of which have origins in the surrounding Sanpitch Valley... Offering a fantasy of folklore, this exhibition explores a museum investigating the adaptability of memory, an uncanny valley where stories and objects are rendered in clay, and the accidental becomes methodical and vice versa. The Museum of Love and Devotion’s collection, a cultural orphanage of local wares and artifacts, magnetically assimilates these new additions like welcomed scraps sewn into a community quilt. As a new chapter it enacts a continuity of the museum’s mission -- a faithful and recursive maintenance of the structure as time capsule, eyewitness and storyteller.
-Jason Metcalf, curator (text by Aaron Moulton)
The Fairview Museum of History and Art holds the largest collection of folk objects in the Mountain West. Its heritage wing, The Museum of Love and Devotion, is housed in a finde siècle stone schoolhouse, situated on the institution’s property in Fairview, Utah. The expansive archive includes objects of historical significance, geologic and biologic specimens, and artwork, as well as other unclassifiable items, all of which have origins in the surrounding Sanpitch Valley... Offering a fantasy of folklore, this exhibition explores a museum investigating the adaptability of memory, an uncanny valley where stories and objects are rendered in clay, and the accidental becomes methodical and vice versa. The Museum of Love and Devotion’s collection, a cultural orphanage of local wares and artifacts, magnetically assimilates these new additions like welcomed scraps sewn into a community quilt. As a new chapter it enacts a continuity of the museum’s mission -- a faithful and recursive maintenance of the structure as time capsule, eyewitness and storyteller.
-Jason Metcalf, curator (text by Aaron Moulton)
Jack Rabbit Roundup, 2014, archival pigment print, 12 x 16 inches
Edition of 5
Edition of 5