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Carrier addresses some of the central questions that arise when one assigns cultural identity to objects such as costumes and cloaks or when one assumes authority over others by creating division between one thing and another—one style and the next. For the purpose of this exhibition, the self-personality is observed by a different delegated ‘other’ self, sometimes resembling a (refugee) tent in attendance as decision maker.

Jaarsma’s constructions of war, work, and ruling class costume relics operate in a way that facilitates the study of power by positing new social and ethnic associations …