Museum Offerings, 2024 ongoing
Museum Offerings, 2025
In this project, I seek to reactivate the original functionality of the Pre-Columbian sculptures housed in the British Museum by offering gifts to the Aztec deity figures on display. I repeatedly bring flowers and fruit, placing them on the sculptures—an action inspired by the defiant practice of the Mexica people, who continued to leave offerings for the Coatlicue statue, unearthed in Mexico City during an 18th-century excavation and subsequently reburied by Spanish authorities for inciting idolatry among Indigenous communities. Through these gestures, I momentarily restore the sculptures’ original role as objects of worship and intervene in their museum-imposed status as artefacts.