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When curators have different approaches to sensitive material

My co-curator and I are putting together an exhibition about memory and trauma and we realize we're approaching the subject from completely different emotional distances - they want rawness and I want reflection. Our artist selections keep reflecting this split and the show feels incoherent.

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Partners must reconcile opposing strategies for engaging with difficult subject matter while maintaining curatorial integrity.

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