An exhibition catalogue is a comprehensive professional record and publication that documents the works displayed in a museum or gallery exhibition. Beyond a simple list, it serves as a long-term scholarly resource for researchers, collectors, and curators. Key Functions
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To return to our original question: Why the exhibition catalogue? Because art is physical. An installation exists in real space. A JPEG collapses that space into a flat, backlit box. The catalogue—with its weight, its paper grain, its smell of ink, and its duty to history—collapses the exhibition into a sacred object that you can hold. Because art is physical