Masterpieces
Masterpieces began with hundreds of black-and-white drawings made during repeated visits to the British Museum in 2006 and 2007. Together, they formed a personal collection within the museum’s public one.
The museum brings together objects removed from different places, periods and original uses, presenting them as a coherent collection of “masterpieces.” Laufer’s drawings respond to the attraction of these objects, but also implicate her own way of looking: selecting, copying and taking possession through drawing. Some of the drawings were then redrawn, crumpled and assembled into a large, totem-like structure. Rather than recovering the objects’ original meanings, the work produces another collection—subjective, unstable and openly constructed.
