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Eleanor Paynter

Eleanor Paynter studies borders and migration and is completing a PhD in Comparative Studies at Ohio State University.

Janet Biggs: Overview Effect

By Nicole Miller and Eleanor Paynter

Among recent artwork and global exhibitions addressing precarious migration, Janet Biggs’s Overview Effect, debuting in the U.S. at Cristin Tierney Gallery, is especially seductive.

Janet Biggs, <em>Weighing Life Without a Scale</em>, 2018. Three-channel HD video installation. Courtesy the artist and Cristin Tierney Gallery, New York.
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MARCH 2023

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