R.S.V.P. I – 1977
Pantyhose and sand
Senga Nengudi
American, born 1943

Senga writes: “I am working with nylon mesh because it relates to the elasticity of the human body,” Nengudi has explained. “From tender, tight beginnings to sagging… The body can only stand so much push and pull until it gives way, never to resume its original shape.”