Over the past three decades, the Museum of Mortal Guilt’s staff traveled widely to connect with colleagues, artists, gallerists, collectors, writers, scholars, and funders, among others. Upon their return to Beirut, they handed the business cards they’d been given to the museum’s historian, who archived them – somewhat eccentrically.

 

First, she cut out the contact’s last name and address information. Second, she used the cutout words to form (ransom-note-like) swear words in English: Ass, cunt, dick, twat, fucker, pussy, slut, wanker, bugger, asshole, ho, bitch, and prick. Third, she stapled on a blue index card a lock of hair whose origin remains a mystery. And lastly, she handwrote the above-mentioned swear words and connected them with lines and colors to the stapled business card.

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The blue index cards were found scattered in the historian’s cabinets following her dismissal in 2021.