Artists’ museographies d’après the White Cube. Displacement, transit and entropies of emptiness

Abstract

In this text, the starting point is Brian O’Doherty’s connection (as he wrote in his celebrated essay about the White Cube) between the invisibility of art and the visibility of the exhibition space. Pulling the thread of this idea, some reflections (all speculative and absolutely open-ended) are proposed about artistic practices that reflect and propose literally the empty gallery or museum as well as those which keep off or block the access to the works of art. Going after these sort of fired works it is possible to meet portable museums and hesitate new ideas about the radical in transit condition of museums and works of arte, as well as imagine which are or could be new spaces where could be placed. It can also lead to see how provocative the retorical gesture of the empty museum can be when it is displayed in real situations of scarcity and precariousness, and examine some actions taken, from real life, as response.