The Carpenter and the Seamstress, 2000–2001, the first major work by Yehudit Sasportas to be seen outside her native Israel, was a room-scale installation (at Deitch Projects in New York) pitched at an uneasy juncture between painting, sculpture, and architecture—a collapsed or compressed architecture, in fact, that seemed to convey a concentrated emotional tension whose reason could not be reconstructed from its form. Even once told that the underlying structure referred to the floor plan of the artist’s childhood apartment and that the seemingly archetypal figures of its title are her parents,