Prince Aghatise Erediauwa / I MISS YOU - About missing, giving back and remembering

His Royal Highness Prince Aghatise Erediauwa talks about the new exhibition at RJM, I MISS YOU - About missing, giving back and remembering.
from April 29th, 2022
I MISS YOU
About missing, giving back and remembering
In 2018, for the first time in its history, the RJM returned a mummified head that had been in the collection for 110 years to New Zealand. Two years later, it suggested returning to Cambodia a stone sculpture from the Preah Khan Temple in Angkor that had been unlawfully taken from its country. Since 2021, the RJM has been intensively involved in the planned repatriation of the Benin bronzes from Nigeria. The restitution debates have never been as explosive as they are today. But what is behind the restitution demands? What do they mean in concrete terms for the people who are affected by them? What happened at the place of origin after an object was collected and left its place? What emptiness did it leave behind in its country of origin? "I MISS YOU" is a new series about grief, missing, melancholy, broken memories and emptiness. In "I MISS YOU", questions are made visible in space in a poetic and empathetic way on the basis of controversial collections or museum objects that are affected by restitution claims and brought closer to museum visitors.
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