Pitchforks hung in an eminently artistic installation at the end of the visit to the MVR. Museum of Rural Life.
The museum conserves many dignified tools that are currently obsolete. These implements retrieved from the countryside, especially from farmers, are a huge part of our history. Learning about the values of the rural world is a necessary part of explaining how we have reached where we are today.
Some of these tools take on a new formal dimension when they are used as sculptural elements.
The recovery, restoration, rehabilitation and recycling of old tools to give them a new lease on life allows our history and its accompanying values to be disseminated. This exhibition is a modest tribute to farmers and the rural world.
We have to know where we come from to know where we’re going.
