Midway through Kiki Smith’s exhibition I am a Wanderer at Modern Art Oxford we encounter a Wünderkammer, ‘a cabinet of curiosities,’ which contains a strange array of forms and materials, both human and animal. Among this curious collection are a glass frog, a porcelain dead cat, a silver shooting star and a bat cast in bronze with piercing ruby eyes.
This #MAO360 video features our curator, Stephanie Straine, offering insights into these remarkable small sculptures and the history of the cabinet of curiosities.