A sculpture for showing art without institutional walls or curatorial framing. A concrete block holds a sheet of acrylic. Art goes on one side, the label on the other. A light embedded in the base illuminates the edge.

Lina Bo Bardi designed these display systems—cavaletes in Portuguese—for the São Paulo Museum of Art in the late 1960s. They were retired in the early 90s, abandoned. A modernism we didn't want.

I'm interested in their formal logic and their curatorial polemics: people wandering, making their own choices, navigating without mediation.

Originally installed at the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston for the 2015 James and Audrey Foster Prize.