After a relationship ends, what to do with all the things we still have from it? It was precisely this idea that motivated two Croatian artists, Olinka Vištica and Dražen Grubisic, to create the Museum of Broken Relationships in 2006.
In this way, his “museum” began with a traveling collection of donated pieces and was so successful that it traveled the world; assimilating in each destination, objects of all kinds donated by the public.
In Mexico City, the first exhibition took place in 2014 and eight years later, it returns to the Museum of the Object (MODO), in the Roma neighborhood, with 90 members from various cities: Japan, Argentina, South Africa, the United States and Germany, to name just a few.
Clearly, Mexicans are also represented, since from July to August of this year 700 requests for donations of objects were received to later select the most significant ones.
The Museum of Broken Relationships of All Kinds
It should be noted that not only objects of romantic breakups are exposed. There are also cases of family, work and even pet losses, through an interesting curatorship of pieces: toys, clothes, records, perfumes and even an x-ray.
The interesting thing is that each object tells its own story and has allowed its donor to close a cycle.
Likewise, the tour is proof of indifferent: anyone will be able to identify with one story or another and feel empathy for the loss of other people. At the end of the day, the feeling of breaking up has been experienced by all of us.
Finally, the journey concludes with a confessional, where the visitor can write anonymously their own story of separation, which can help to vent a grief or even heal a wound.
Exhibition details
Date: it will be available until February 28, 2023.
Location: in the Museum of the Object of the Object (MODO), Colima 145, Colonia Roma.
Hours: Tuesday to Sunday, from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Cost: General admission $50
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