Exhibition: Safe Spaces

Susan Gray
16 July 2026, The Tablet

Aleksandra Kasuba Spectrum, An Afterthought, 1975/2014.

LITHUANIAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF ART; PHOTO BY ANTANAS LUKŠĖNAS.

Kasuba’s last major public commission – a wave-patterned, 4,000-square-foot wall in acid-etched red granite for 7 World Trade Center in New York – was destroyed in 9/11.

AN ISOLATED structure on a rocky plot, with spaces to live and work in har mony with nature: it sounds akin to the settlements of the Desert Fathers, but was home to the Lithuanian-American artist Aleksandra Kasuba, and photographs and a model of it are now on view at the artist’s first UK museum show. Rock Hill House in New Mexico, with its shell shapes and primary colours, forms the final exhibit.

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