See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil
This is a permanent public work sited in the information room (or library) of the National Museum of Ethnology (Museum Volkenkunde) in Leiden, The Netherlands on the occasion of the museum’s sesquicentennial. The work references Jules Virey, a French anthropologist highly popular at the time of the founding of the museum who argued that human origin was polygenic and divided between superior white and an inferior black branches. This work posits that evil was at the heart of the founding of the ethnologically based museum with its collection gathered from imperialist conquests or colonialists adventures, of course always in the name of a civilizing project.