This is the first book to present a wide selection of works from the Muse des Erreurs, orMuseum of Mistakes. Founded in Brussels in 2013 byPierre Leguillon, the Muse des Erreurs is a traveling exhibition that encamps for a show in the halls of brick-and-mortar museumslike a traveling circus that comes to townand then moves on. The rest of the time, the collection is stored in the artist’s studio apartment, mainly in his kitchen cupboards. Most of the items are serially manufactured and of negligible material value: postcards, record sleeves, posters large and small, pieces of fabric, ceramics, folk art, children’s drawings and other miscellany. This book also includes items deemed too small, fragile or insignificant to take on tour in the past, as well as photographs of everyday street scenes that shed some light on various facets of the collection. Whether signed or anonymous, these artefacts defy any claims of authoritativeness in an age in which visual culture is shared on social media and all over the web, with no distinctions of substantive or aesthetic value, often with no captions and, all too frequently, with erroneous attributions. For Leguillon, the constant sorting and reshuffling of the items helps us revisit conventional interpretations and subvert, with an ample dose of humour, the sort of cultural prt–porter so many museums serve us up nowadays. Essays byPatricia FalguiresandMorad Montazamisituate the Muse des Erreurs in the tradition of art museums and the phenomenon of cultural appropriation.Carrie Pilto

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240 pages, 19 x 26 cm, hardcover, Edition Patrick Frey (Zurich).