Kiki Smith: Fondazione Querini Stampalia.

For the exhibition "Homespun Tales: A Tale of Domestic Occupation," Kiki Smith occupied a Venetian palazzo, decorating its third floor as an American Colonial home that paralleled the former residence of the noble Querini Stampalia family below. Among the opulent eighteenth-century furnishings and Renaissance paintings of the historical second floor the artist placed thirteen porcelain figurines--delicate white apparitions peering from behind the glass of dark wood cabinets or perched on top of fireplace mantels.

These mythical creatures--some of which resembled ...

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