Alafuro is an industrial designer and artist who worked on the [Re:]Entanglements exhibition at the Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology in Cambridge.
We talk about her experience of moving between Nigeria and the UK, her engagement with museums as artefact libraries, as well as her conception of objects as language in solid form.
Alafuro speaks about becoming engaged with the [Re:]Entanglements project in the middle of lockdown, and the challenge of developing an engaging display for the exhibition space.
As a designer, she reflects on how intended users are central to her engagement with artefacts, the way in which objects become part of other worlds, as well as the museum operates as a kind of time capsule.
As an artist she reflects on the trust that underpins the operation of the museum as a public space, and the way it can be a place for asking questions.
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