Object Notes

This hat was originally part of the regalia worn by a Yaka or a Suku regional chief (mfumu misa

Using childhood memories as a generative device, Louise Bourgeois dealt with issues of gender, and with such universal themes as sex, anxiety, death, loneliness, and pain. Her diaristic experiments and disturbing imagery related to the body anticipated post-minimalist

The tree-like form on this delicate tapestry is composed of two symbols that represent increments of time. Alighiero Boetti used these signs to record the ringing of the bells at the church of Santa Maria in Trastevere in Rome, Italy.

Eija-Liisa Ahtila keenly brings to light difficult, often disturbing aspects of contemporary life, empathetically communicating their effect on everyday people through today's evolving technologies of film and video.