The Postcard Project: Surreptitious Installations
1999-2000

The use of museum shops was appropriated as exhibition space to
humorously subvert the sequence of art marketing in the creation of
artists’ reputations.

Each
Surreptitious Installation (of a postcard of my own work into the
postcard racks of prominent art museum shops) was documented by a
quick photo, and the purchase of my card along with adjoining cards.
The evidence of each installation were the receipt, the photo, the
purchased cards, a museum bag, and a receipt
.
Museum of Modern Art, New York
October 2, 1999
Christo,
Package, 1962
Sarah Wentworth,
Autobiography, 1999
Joseph Cornell,
Allegory of Innocence, 1956
Sarah Wentworth, Postcard Project, Surreptitious Installations
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