A Creative Act

This series considers the historic removal of sculptural fragments from the Parthenon in Athens and their subsequent custodianship by the British Museum in London. Using my own photographs and vintage tourist postcards, I used digital techniques to overlay scenes from the Acropolis over the sculptures in the British Museum in order to highlight their displacement, which is still politically contested. The political and moral issues inherent in these museum displays can be related to wider, ongoing debates around the restitution of cultural artefacts held in British museums.