Elizabeth Price, winner of the 2013 Contemporary Art Society Award, has created a new work in response to the collections and archives of the Ashmolean and Pitt Rivers museums: A RESTORATION    

This fifteen-minute, two-screen digital video installation employs the museums’ photographic and graphic archives. It is a fiction, set to melody and percussion, which is narrated by a ‘chorus’ of museum administrators who are organising the records of Arthur Evans’s excavation of the Cretan city of Knossos. The administrators use Evans’s extraordinary documents and photographs to figuratively reconstruct the Knossos Labyrinth within the museum’s computer server. They then imagine its involuted space as a virtual chamber through which museum objects digitally flow, clatter and cascade.

This display has been produced in partnership with the Pitt Rivers Museum and The Ruskin School of Art.  

A RESTORATION will be on display at the Ashmolean Museum from 18th March - 15th May 2016.  More details about opening times can be found here

Telegraph art critic Alastair Sooke describes A RESTORATION as “the art work of the year”. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/art/what-to-see/elizabeth-price-creates-the-art-work-of-the-year/

Elizabeth will give an insight into her work in a lecture at the Ashmolean on Wednedsay 23rd March from 6 - 7pm. For further information and to book tickets see https://www.oxfordplayhouse.com/ticketsoxford/#event=20564

A recent interview with Elizabeth Price in which she talks about her work and most recent project, A RESTORATION, can now be found on the Guardian's website