Untitled
2017
From the collection of Museum of Modern Art
Untitled is a 2017 by Rirkrit Tiravanija, depicting letter, held at Museum of Modern Art.
This print is a plain white sheet with black text: a letter to the president protesting an immigration ban. It’s one of nine prints made by different artists in 2017 to raise money for immigrant rights. The words are simple, but the act of printing them turns a private letter into public art. You can almost hear the quiet anger in the lines. If you want to see how other artists turned words into protest, look up the technique impasto.
