Visiting
Sable Elyse Smith
Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art
Sable Elyse Smith’s Visiting takes the rules and instructions for visitors to prisons and reinvents them as an artwork, intermingling official regulations with the ordinary violence of frisking and surveillance. Making visible the interior and often unseen space of mass incarceration in the United States—where imprisoned people, including the artist’s father, are not allowed to share images of their experience—Smith’s work comments on the impersonal bureaucracies that contain and control individuals.
MEDIUM
Acrylic
DATES
2017
DIMENSIONS
install dims, approx.: 30 × 20 in. (76.2 × 50.8 cm)
storage (housing prepared January 2021): 2 × 11 1/2 × 14 in. (5.1 × 29.2 × 35.6 cm)
COLLECTIONS
Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art
ACCESSION NUMBER
2019.38
CREDIT LINE
Gift of The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection
EXHIBITIONS
MUSEUM LOCATION
This item is not on view
EDITION
Unique
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