Shuffle, squeak, ssh!, shutter, click! explores the museum as a site of coercive national power, reflecting on a specific incident which occured at the Musée d'Orsay. In December 2016, Marianne Acqua, a teacher from the Maurice Utrillo de Stains school in Seine-Saint-Dennis led a school visit to the museum in central Paris. The school is in an Education Priority Zone (ZEP), designated for additional support due to concentrated social disadvantages faced by its pupils. The trip was abruptly cut short after one of the museum's wardens told Acqua's pupils to 'shut their mouths'—a reprimand not directed to other, white, middle-class Parisian students also in attendance at the museum that day.

Like the battlefield, museums serve as nationalist rehearsal spaces where conquest is staged and palatized as spectacle. By acknowledging the museum's visual schema as one of detached observation and extractivist commoditication, we realise that photogrammetry's cultural initiation does not absolve its violent past. On the battlefield and in the museum the same tactical intent
persists: to search for traces of the Other.