De Bibliotheca: A Metaphor of Self-revelation, Creation and Museum

Abstract

A family bookcase sparks a study of visual culture and museum concept. The process of the present research has been to look anew through photography at an object taken for granted and to make its presence a source of reflection on themes such as identity, family history, visual culture and museum. 1 This research is guided by methodologies such as autoethnography, visual narratives, narrative inquiry, action research and arts-based research, methods which were particularly adapted to a subject in which the producer, the process and the product are intertwined within their context. They led the author on the path of a reflexive process of understanding, on a thorough introspective examination of a piece of furniture and the multiple layers of meaning that this bookcase and its treasures enshrine.