Focusing on the labour that goes into grief and mourning – and the universality of that work – this exhibition takes six items from six different cultures currently on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and invites the audience to consider the material and emotional labour inherent to bereavement.
Freddy Thompson (he/him and she/her) is a Rare Books and Special Collections librarian with a narrow focus on medieval European materials and a broad interest in the history of the written word. Having completed the Advanced Certificate in Archives as part of his MSLIS program, Freddy seeks to contribute to the wide range of conservation and preservation practices underway in the GLAM sector, including physical housing and collections management, reparative cataloguing, repatriation and restitution, and digitization.