Liliana Porter, printmaker

In making these prints, Liliana Porter visited flea markets to find vintage toys and mass-produced knick-knacks, in particular those dating to the 1950s, the period of her youth. Isolated by a vast white background, the objects are stripped of their temporal contexts and everyday associations and placed in unusual juxtapositions, resulting in disorienting and absurd vignettes. Such is the case in The Offering, in which a toy penguin presents a tiny strip of red rice paper to the geisha printed on porcelain plate.