The exhibition "The Collector's Room" at the Janco Dada Museum featured installations by Katya Oicherman that explored her interest in collectors and collected objects through recreating and reassembling elements of the space and collection of Yuhannah Dawud, a Jewish-Iranian collector of Persian manuscripts. The exhibition included the installation "The Collector's Room" using found furniture and objects, 153 cut paper figures based on Dawud's collection, and a large manually cut vinyl image on the wall. The works explored acts of cutting, reassembling, and arranging to transform and envelop the museum space inspired by Dawud's life and collection.
2. The Collector's Room was a solo exhibition in the Janco Dada Museum, which continued and
summarised the series of works (Rendering of Writing and Descriptions of Wanderings)
produced over the last 7 years exploring the relationships between collector, objects of collection
and personal memories. Inspired by the life and work of Yuhannah Dawud, a London based Jewish-
Iranian collector of Persian manuscripts, who had partially destroyed his collection by means of
knife and scissors, the three installations in the Dada Museum are dedicated to the space where
Dawud had lived and worked during the last years before his death in 1969 and the passion this
space had to contain. The work explores the extended acts of cutting-out and reassembling on
various scales, spreading from the conventional exhibition space onto less expected and hard-to-
reach portions of museum walls, enveloping and changing the space by means of installation - a
conventional arrangement of furniture and intensified variations of collage.
The exhibition included:
The Collector's Room
Installation, found furniture, found objects and mixed media, dimensions variable
From the Nocturnal Butterflies Collection of Y. D.
153 laser-cut paper figures (based on hand cut prototypes), overage height of each figure 15 cm,
pins
Cut # 4
C-print on vinyl sticker, manually cut-out on the wall, 4.6 x 3.8 m