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Archaeological Museography: Presentation
and Representation
david Pérez garcía
Good morning. I am going to try and speak in English, but for
me, this is difficult. It is not easy because my heart, my soul and the
right side of my brain speak Spanish. Only the left side of my brain
sometimes tries to speak in English; rarely do I manage. That is why
I will try not to talk for long. I am going to use lots of pictures and a
few key words that will appear on the screen.
Before I begin, I would like to thank the Archeoshow organizational
committee for their invitation to speak at this conference. For
me, it is an honour to share the stage and this round table with these
wonderful professionals. I would like to express special appreciation
to Clara Ruggieri for the interest she has shown in my work, as well
as to Professor Marco Vaudetti for his determination and patience.
My name is David Pérez and I am an exhibition designer. This
term, in English, can be a play on words, so taking advantage of
PowerPoint, I can convert the term “exhibition designer” into a
contraction to create “ex-designer”. Ex-designer began in 2001 as a
definition of Martí Guixé’s work in the context of design, emerging
as a consequence of the de-contextualization attributed to his work.
This concept is the first thing I explain to my students taking their
Masters in Museography: an exhibition designer must forget, almost
all the time, that he/she is a designer.
I have devoted the past 15 years to creating spaces for encounters
between an audience and objects, between an audience and ideas.
My hands have touched thousands of objects that someone wanted
to show, and hundreds of ideas that someone wanted to express. The
first five years, I worked in a large company, perhaps one of the best
in Europe. It is called GPD. At that time, in the mid 1990s, museums
in Spain were undergoing an exhibition design transformation
process due to the influence of the World’s Fair held in Seville.
While working for that company, I worked on a number of interesting
projects. Some of them were linked to things that could be found
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