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This installation is a part of Nengudi’s R.S.V.P. series, a body of sculptural works composed of pantyhose filled with sand and stretched across architectural space. Initially developed as Nengudi reflected on the physical transformations of her body following childbirth, the work is defined by tension and elasticity. Early iterations of the series were activated through live performance, with both the artist and her collaborators pulling, knotting, and entangling the nylon forms, treating the sculpture as both object and participant. Through abstraction and materially modest means, the installation articulates layered experiences of embodiment, addressing themes of vulnerability and the assertion of bodily presence within space.

R.S.V.P. I by Senga Nengudi (1977/2003)

Bedroom by Nelly Agassi (2005)

Paintings by Larry Madrigal

Horses in Austria Wearing GORE-TEX Blankets

Magazine Ad for the World Trade Center (1980)

A documentary project tracing the India-Pakistan border across five states, Sinha's work is rooted in his own family's experience of the 1947 Partition and extends outward to collect the histories of communities living at a boundary that has never stopped dividing. The series functions as both photographic survey and oral archive.

This Isn't Divide and Conquer by Aaryan Sinha (2022-Ongoing)

Selections from r/malelivingspace

Hair Painting by Xie Rong (2011)

Interior Seasons by Paola Davila (2009)

Sehkanal (Sight Channel) by Franz Erhard Walther [1968] A 24-foot-long hood that participants put over their heads and try to keep taut for as long as possible.

Street Photography by Jeremy Paige