You Know My Name

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Introduction

In this book, I retrace the displacement of an ancient Egyptian mummified child currently on display at the Medelhavsmuseet in Stockholm. Here, I imagine him recounting his long and unsettling journey to the only person he trusts to always remember his name: his mother. His story unfolds alongside ancient Egyptian prayers, once uttered to activate the protective amulets placed on the deceased during mummification. With this juxtaposition, I seek to soothe the trauma of his uprooting through rituals of care: chanting prayers, placing amulets, and pouring wax to secure them in place. These gestures shield him from intrusive gazes while evoking the presence of his mother, who may have placed the amulets found between his wrappings.

Protesting his display and both physical and virtual unwrapping ––museum visitors can virtually ‘peel away’ his wrappings through a digital autopsy table––, I choose to shroud his photographed body as an act of both care and critique. In doing so, I criticise the use of so-called non-invasive imagining techniques that impose forensic scrutiny on the dead without consent and in opposition to their beliefs.

Specifications
11,5 x 19 cm, 80 pages
First Edition of 20
Hand-sewn, swiss bound, and un-glued
Signed and numbered
Includes: 35 re-appropriated archival images, 7 short narratives, and excerpts from Ancient Egyptian prayers
Self-published in March 2025