Breaking Free: The Vitrine, Queer Labours of Display

The vitrine turns participants into performers of professional art-world roles for strangers who don’t know them, exposing the fragile authority

behind expertise and artistic identity.

Passers-by confront an unsettling puzzle: ordinary people doing unfamiliar work, stripped of institutional labels.

In this public theater, identity becomes fluid, political, and provocatively open to reinterpretation.