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Collage of five diverse artworks from the Hammer Museum Collections side by side. From left to right: 1) Contemporary painting of two embracing figures with surreal elements. 2) Post-impressionist style painting of trees with vibrant blues and greens. 3) Black and white illustration of a face with intricate patterns. 4) Japanese woodblock print style image of a figure in a checkered robe. 5) Photograph of a couple dancing, the woman in a black dress and the man in white

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Digital Archive Take It or Leave It: Institution, Image, Ideology
Art Renée Green, Mise-en-Scène: Commemorative Toile
Mise-en-Scène: Commemorative Toile, by Renée Green, 1992–94

Renée Green, Artist
Mise-en-Scène: Commemorative Toile , 1992–94

Medium
Photograph, upholstered chair, wall treatment, wallpaper
Dimensions
Dimensions variable
Credit Line
Photograph, courtesy of the artist and Free Agent Media; chair, collection of Eileen Harris Norton; wallpaper, courtesy of the artist, Free Agent Media, and the Fabric Workshop. Installation view, Galerie im Taxisplais, Innsbruck, Austria, 2004, courtesy of the artist and Free Agent Media (photo: Rainer Iglar)

To make her toile, Renée Green combined bucolic scenes typical of eighteenth-century upholstery fabric with violent scenes of enslavement and uprisings. Using this fabric, she has constructed installations reminiscent of museum period rooms, with chairs, settees, drapes, and wallpaper, deploying these historical tropes and forms to tell other, often repressed histories.