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This installation will consist ot two Maya tenon sculptures from WCMA's holdings displayed in conversation with metal sculptures by the artist in the museum's Stoddard Gallery.
Gift of the Artist to the Ancient Object Labeled as Human Head Wearing a Peaked Headdress, One Migrant to Another, in Memory of your True Name and your Land
Artist
Beatriz Cortez
(Salvadoran, b. 1970)
Date2023
Mediumsteel
Dimensions60 × 48 × 24 in. (152.4 × 121.9 × 61 cm)
Classification(s)
- WCMA exhibition loan
Credit LineBeatriz Cortez: The Portals (2022-23), Williams College Museum of Art, Commission
Object numberTL.2022.18.5.A
DescriptionThis installation derives from the artist's research into the Lyceum of Natural History at Williams College and Herbert D. N. Jones, Class of 1914, who donated a number of Maya objects to the College. The project asks questions about how certain kinds of objects become part of institutional collections, what happens to them once they are displaced from their original contexts and will propose alternative ways of seeing and engaging with them.This installation will consist ot two Maya tenon sculptures from WCMA's holdings displayed in conversation with metal sculptures by the artist in the museum's Stoddard Gallery.
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