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Art Criticism / Contemporary Art / Exhibitions / Uncategorized · May 8, 2021

Facsimile Cabinet of Women Origin Stories

I was invited by the Lunder Institute for American Art to write a response to my experience interacting with Theaster Gates’s Facsimile Cabinet of Women Origin Stories, which debuted in the U.S. at the Colby College Museum of Art in 2019. I thought about flying; sight reading; voids; and order.

Ellen Tani, “Chords of Reverence” in Theaster Gates: Facsimile Cabinet of Women Origin Stories (Colby College Museum of Art, 2021).

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