Susanne Ussing, I Drivhuset, Ordrupgaard Samlingen, 1980

The late Danish artist Susanne Ussing was fascinated by the female experience, a theme she explored extensively through a wide variety of media, from large-scale installations and interactive exhibitions to photography and ceramics. This stirring sculpture was created for the garden of the Ordrupgaard Museum in Copenhagen. It consists of a vast female figure—made from wood, newspaper clippings, and metal chimney vents—trapped with in a too-small greenhouse like Alice in Wonderland after eating the size-altering mushroom. After an unprecedented period of time spent indoors, the sense of claustrophobia and confinement it evokes feels particularly pertinent.