To Shift a Stone
Sophie Mak-Schram and Collaborators
National Museum Cardiff, UK
14 June 2025 – 15 February 2026
Working with activists, community workers, artists, and museum staff, Sophie developed collaborative ‘tools’ that challenge and reimagine power structures.
These tools range from access templates and new working processes to modified megaphones and ceramic pieces, creating opportunities for shared learning and more equitable collaboration.
The resulting two-part exhibition, To Shift a Stone, focuses on categorisations (National Museum Cardiff) and forms of assembling (Chapter).
At National Museum Cardiff, the exhibition considers how objects are collected and identified, whose voice can be heard when speaking about these objects, and how to interrupt some of the hidden rules of the museum.
The exhibition features some of these tools alongside key items from across the museum’s collections, including the Schools Outreach Collection and the Asian Art corridor. It highlights how power shapes what is seen, preserved, and interpreted.
HAIR + WAITING
HAIR CLUB is an interdisciplinary, research-based art collective whose work dives into the topic of hair in culture. Co-founded in 2014, HAIR CLUB puts forth a socially engaged art historical practice which embraces the many associations of hair in culture – art, popular culture, religion, literature, history, politics, and more – as well as the material of hair itself as it finds its way into artists’ practices across the globe.
HAIR AND WAITING emerged from Erika Råberg’s invitation to think about hair itself as a time-based medium. The result is a zine which has been slipped into the pages of fashion magazines already sitting in the waiting rooms of hair salons in Stockholm, London, Rome, and Baltimore – cities where each of us is based. Their discovery is left to chance, as they will fall out of their hiding places when someone flips through a magazine.
This publication project was made possible with the support of the Curating Art program at Stockholm University.
HAIR CLUB: https://hairhairhair.club
Cover Image: Oz Izzet
Book Design: Suzanne Gold
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