If Museum

In this project, I created a conceptual museum that contains different fake "facts". For example, "Heartbreaking is a disease", "Mickey mouse only has 3 fingers". These absurd facts were actually from my philosophical reflections about simple details in our daily life. I did research on all these weird questions that people don't usually dig deeper about the answer. For example: "Why does Mickey Mouse's each hand has to have four fingers? What if it only have three fingers?" If you think about this question in a simple way, you won't question it, and you will just accept the fact that Mickey has four fingers.
However, I did research on the fact, and got the answer - the artist wanted to create a cute mouse that has human personalities, but 5 fingers will make the animation process more complex and time-consuming. In this case, 4 finger is an appropriate set for cartoon. Inspired by this, I imagined a completely different parallel world in which Mickey Mouse only has 3 fingers. With this set up, everything has changed - the author's intention became irony, and Mickey was created as a character that has no self conscious. Considering the background of times, in my madeup world, Mickey was an evil army which was created to satirize the Nazis. With this idea, I wrote some side news about this "fake" character to wrap everything up and built a realistic but fake world view.

With this logic, I wrote all the "facts", and designed the newspaper which was exhibited as a museum collection on my art exhibition. There are 5 issues in total. In the exhibition, I also created the objects that are mentioned in the articles. (e.g 3d printed 3-fingers Mickey mouse and transparent heart model.)

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