Curated by Lynne Cooke

Rosemarie Trockel emerged in the ’80s as a sculptor, making sardonically elegant and enigmatically feminist objects like a triple-handled janitor’s push broom and a knit “painting” incorporating the Kantian cogito in spidery script. Recently, however, she has concentrated on video—no less elegantly sardonic and enigmatic, but now with a goofy insouciance thrown into the mix. For Trockel’s first major American museum show since 1991, curator Lynne Cooke puts together a suite of new video projections unified by a structure of cantilevered aluminum walls and ambient light, all investigating the artist’s ongoing interest in confinement, comfort, habitat, and habit.

— Frances Richard