The Antidote Museum in practice: an artist and an ethnologist's iew on the Romanian Peasant Museum

During an interview from Autumn 2017, in Bucharest, Marianne Mesnil (ethnologist) and Florian Fouché (artist) talk about their experience at the Romanian Peasant Museum in Bucharest. They are discussing about the museum display experienced by Irina Nicolau (1946-2002) and Horia Bernea (1938-2000): the exhibition hall “The Plague”, the curtains from “Village School”, the manifest “The Antidote Museum”, or the concepts of “father-museums” and “mother-museums”, the exhibition hall “Time”. Starting with their reflections on the Peasant Museum, the discussion turns to the exhibition that Florian Fouché had about the museum, entitled “The Antidote Museum” (Centre d’art Passerelle, Brest,2014), but also to the exhibitions that Irina Nicolau had set up in France, Un village dans une malle (Paris, 1991), and another one in Belgium, Roumanie en miroir, mémoires de tiroir (Treignes, 1997). The article is accompanied by photos taken by Florian Fouché of his exhibition.