Study 49: The Institutional Pivot: How Post-Luxury Conceptual Functional Art (PLCFA) Reconfigures Museology, Materiality, and the Decolonization of the Canon

The twenty-first-century museum object is undergoing a profound ontological crisis, burdened by the ethical demand to move beyond mere aesthetic preservation and actively advance social critique and justice. This strategic pivot is a direct institutional response to widespread fatigue with the accelerating disposability of the hyper-consuming society, positioning cultural memory and duration as necessary counterweights to material ephemerality. This study argues that to maintain relevance and integrity, institutions must radically shift their criteria of value, abandoning traditional metrics c