Autobiographie d'une selle metis (Collections invisibles 2024)

"Autobiographie d'une selle metis" is part of the ongoing "Collections invisibles" series at the Cantonal Museum of Archaeology and History in Lausanne, Switzerland. The 2024-2025 edition invites visitors to reconsider the stories embedded in museum objects, focusing on a mixed-heritage saddle as a starting point for broader reflections on identity, cultural exchange, and the invisible histories that objects carry.

The exhibition challenges conventional narratives of museum collections, bringing to light artefacts and perspectives that are often overlooked or left unspoken. Through this intimate and unconventional approach, the show asks what it means for an object to have a biography — and whose stories are told, and whose are silenced.