Rina Banerjee Make Me a Summary of the World
he cowrie shell appears throughout Rina Banerjee’s work, often as writhing clusters of biomass that erupt from her brimming, bricolage installations. These shells, both natural and man-made, were gathered from all over the world and can be seen in abundance in Banerjee’s first midcareer, traveling retrospective. The now-valueless-object was historically used as currency in Africa and South and East Asia, and
