Initially set to the same time, these identical battery-powered clocks will eventually fall out of sync, or may stop entirely. Conceived shortly after Gonzalez-Torres’s partner was diagnosed with AIDS, this work uses everyday objects to track and measure the inevitable flow of time.

“Intersections” is inspired by Agha’s exclusion as a woman from Mosques. Inspired by the cultural union of the Alhambra, her creation converses and builds off the palace design. The bright light casts the presence of the piece far, but into open space. This space thus welcomes all to its beauty, and makes you part of that beauty when its shadows cast on you.

Sikander uses her mastery of Indo-Persian miniature painting to grapple with “contemporary South Asian, American, Feminist and Muslim perspectives”.

Politically minded Cuban artist Novo used software to compute the weight, volume, and area of ink used in documents and books. Novo applied the software to revolutionary texts that contributed to the basis of totalitarian regimes in the 20th century: writings of Vladimir Lenin, Adolf Hitler, Fidel Castro, Mao Tse-Tung, and Muammar al Gaddafi.

A column of incomprehensible radios all playing to different stations, in homage to the biblical Tower of Babel and Jorge Luis Borges ‘s themes of our inability to cognitively understand the fluid nature of infinity and reality.