An exhibition isn't a collection. It's an argument. Test yours.

You're curating a show on colonialism and restitution. The Cultural lens asks whose story you're centring. The Political lens asks which institutions you're implicating — including your own. The Ethical lens asks whether displaying contested objects is itself an act of possession. The Economic lens asks who funds the exhibition and what strings are attached.

The blind spot? Probably the Technological lens — the digital repatriation debate, the 3D scanning question, the blockchain provenance tracking that's quietly changing what "return" means.

Run your exhibition thesis through the Synthesis Engine. The angles you didn't consider are the ones the critics will write about.