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A black box sits against a white backdrop. The lid of the black box is slightly offset and sits at a diagonal on top of the box's base. The lid has a white label with a red border around it, centered towards the top of the lid.A black box sits open facing up against a white background. To the left, inside of the box, is a single letter with an envelope set on top of it. To the right, a stack of shuffled letters lies on top of the other side of the box, facing upwards.A black box sits open facing up against a white background. Stack of shuffled letters, each bundled with a paper clip, lie within the box's enclosure and overtop. To the right, a postcard-sized image features a hand holding an egg-shaped object near a shelf.A black box sits open facing up against a white background. Stack of shuffled letters lie within the box's enclosure. A hand-written letter on Smithsonian Archives of American Art letterhead lies overtop with another document showing blue eggs in a seemingly endless carton near two circles with mineral-like textures.A black box sits open facing up against a white background. Stack of shuffled letters lie within the box's enclosure. On the left is a typed letter signed by the artist, Lenka Clayton. On the right is a stack of papers with an off-white envelope laid overtop. The letter beneath it is marked "Kunsthalle Zurich."

Artist Edition

Lenka Clayton x FWM

Unanswered Letter, Letter Box

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Description

Lenka Clayton’s Unanswered Letter, Letter Box is an intimate, limited-edition artist multiple based on Unanswered Letter, her collaborative project with The Fabric Workshop and Museum for the exhibition Object Temporarily Removed. The work comprises high-quality facsimiles of selected responses from the artist’s installation that respond to and debate the timeless question of what makes something a work of art.

Lenka Clayton, in collaboration with The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia.

Archive box containing facsimiles of a selection of letters received
11 x 8.5 x 1 inches
Edition of 50 + 5 APs

Meet the Artist

Lenka Clayton

Lenka Clayton is an interdisciplinary artist whose work considers, exaggerates, and alters the accepted rules of everyday life, extending the familiar into the realms of the poetic and absurd. As an Artist-in-Residence, Clayton’s artistic inquiry explored unanswered questions of iconic works of art.