Agnes Denes on the Pyramid’s Emblematic Power

The influential ecofeminist reflects on the relationship between form and philosophy at the foundation of her art:
Most of my work is about helping humanity with one problem at a time, by offering benign solutions. And I need hundreds of hours of research for each particular problem. Then I put my research into a visual form—it’s much easier for humanity to understand itself through visual means than through mathematical or logical concepts. Each pyramid deals with a different situat