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Frame Size: 22 7/8 × 19 3/4 inches (58.10 × 50.17 cm)
Wilke performed and photographed So Help me Hannah at PS1 in 1979, during an exhibition of her series Snatch Shots and Rayguns 1969–1978. This seminal exhibition summarized a decade of Wilke’s work that saw her career-defining self-portraiture practice develop.
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To see additional work exhibited during So Help Me Hannah and Snatch Shots with Rayguns in the Met Collection click here.
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Hannah Wilke, With Sculptures in Snow, 1978. Archival photograph. Hannah Wilke Collection & Archive, Los Angeles. © Marsie, Emanuelle, Damon, and Andrew Scharlatt. Licensed by VAGA at Artist’s Rights Society (ARS), New York, DACs, London