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The Curator as Translator
What is lost, and what is gained, when a curator turns an artist's intention into a room.
Puja Basak10 min read
Every exhibition is a translation. The curator takes an artist's intention and renders it into walls, sequence and light — and, like any translation, something is always lost and something is always found.
The best curators translate quietly, so that visitors believe the meaning was theirs to discover all along.
