Re:Collect

"Re:Collect is a collaboration between artist Theo Deproost and Museum of the Home. This work also forms part of an on-going project in which the artist has been exploring the stored collections held by museums across the country. His aim is to bring the hidden into the light and to create new narratives around the objects. The images that he has made are striking, not just in their beauty, but also in their technical mastery. In order to capture such fine detail Deproost uses complex technical processes. Made in this way, out of context and out of scale, dramatically lit and reproduced in vivid colours, the photographs emphasise the sculptural qualities of the objects. Theo Deproost wants to arrest our attention, to make us look again at these things. He wants to reveal them in all their detail, highlighting their core components of shape, texture and colour. But in creating these images he isn’t simply making an accurate representation of the object, he also wants to draw our attention to its strangeness, to make us alert to the richness of the things that surround us." Dr. Paul Harper