Between us, only rapture
In a new art installation at the Museum of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Antiquities, the consequences caused by colonial collecting practices are portrayed.
2,500 years ago, a woman named Taperet was buried in Egypt together with her husband and son. In the early 1800s, they were separated when their sarcophagi were sent to different countries in Europe.
The museum’s largest object, a seven-ton stone sarcophagus belonged to Taperet and came from a tomb where she was buried alongside her son and husband. Around 1820, the tomb was opened, and Taperet’s sarcophagus was shipped by boat to Stockholm, while the sarcophagi of her husband and son were sent to the Netherlands.
In a new art installation at the museum, titled Between Us, Only Rapture, the Egypt-born artist Sara Sallam imagines a conversation between the three sarcophagi across the long distance that now separates them.
The installation is the first in a series of artistic interpretations and exhibitions within the framework of the project Bringing the Objects to Life, partially funded by the Riksbankens Jubileumsfond's RJ Arts and Culture grants.
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