“Occidental Art” is a satirical reimagining of the Met Museum’s collection of Asian and Islamic art. The project intends to highlight the contradictory relationship between what we consider art in the West vs in the global south. While Western galleries are full of sculptures and paintings, labeled masterpieces, the non-Western art wings are full of mundane objects like spoons, pens, combs, and keys. The title turns the issue of Orientalism towards itself, fetishizing “western” objects in the same way that landed a sock and a medieval, Islamic, Q-tip into an art museum. It points to the colonial power dynamics that still embed themselves into museum collections and galleries. Each image is of an object category present within the Met Museum’s collection.

2024- Ongoing.