Bundle of Emotions

Yaëlle Biro

July 17, 2013

2 min. watch

This video is part of 82nd and Fifth, a series that invites curators from across the Museum to talk about an artwork that changed the way they see the world.

“It has all these apertures almost as if it is breathing and hearing what is around it.”

Curator Yaëlle Biro on Seated Figure, a terracotta sculpture from the thirteenth century.

Contributors

Yaëlle Biro
Associate Curator, Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas

Photography by Karin L. Willis

Art Mentioned

Seated figure, Middle Niger artist, Terracotta, Middle Niger civilization — Seated figure
Middle Niger artist
13th century

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