 My name is Lan Tuazon. I'm the second artist that's doing the raw-cooked exhibition. The title of my exhibition is called On the Wrong Side of History, where I am creating a large monument for museum preservation and collection composed of existing bases and vitrines from the museum. It's also three drawings where I looked at the Brooklyn Museum collection and then created a new order to understand the objects. One of them is called Gatekeepers, where I took artifacts from the Islamic collection and other collections and created a composition of all the objects that guard gates. Also included in the exhibition is a series of works that are sculptural combines, where I chose artifacts from the collection and then created contemporary sculpture as a response to their form and content. Another part because I wanted to figure out what the contemporary art object was missing, mainly a kind of lived experience that artifacts have. One of the ones that I find dear to me is a piece that's titled Bloodless Diamond. I took a golden ring and then I mounted a pebble that I found across the street from my studio in Brooklyn. It's a bloodless diamond because, in a sense, a diamond is something that we recognize as having a material value. It's true that diamonds are very clear and solid. They're strongest rocks and stuff. I wanted to show what artifacts do in which objects are really invested with this surplus meaning. In the case of the bloodless diamond, we can think about agreeing on applying value to something that had none. It's located in the Egyptian collection, among other jewelry pieces.