Henry Noel Humphreys, Illustration (hand-colored plate), from Ocean Gardens, 1857. Credit: Smithsonian Libraries.
Editors - Nick AikensKjell CaminhaJyoti MistryMick Wilson
The question of exhibition delineates an act of showing. On the surface, the term “exhibition” manifests in itself the very same operation of clear and distinct presentation that it designates. The question of exhibition as a transparent construct appears both in the discourse of the everyday and in specialist jargon of academia and the art field. The question “What is an exhibition?”- seems to offer no real problem. “Exhibition” is simply where things are shown and where people go/come to see those things that are on display.