Article: Excavating the 1970s. (installation art, Renee Green, travelling exhibition)

"History," wrote Robert Smithson in 1967, "is a facsimile of events held together by flimsy biographical information" -- which is another way of saying that we understand history not merely through representations and narrative, but through tangible artifacts and concrete human experience. When Renee Green began a quixotic search to find Smithson's lost 1970 earthwork Partially Buried Woodshed at Kent State University, her goal was in part to reclaim a segment of the past and to locate within it aspects of her own identity. This quest was documented in her recent installation "Partially Buried" at the Pat Hearn Gallery in New York.

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