Her 1935 tapestry 'Etiopia' ("Ethiopia") was triggered by Mussolini’s invasion of the African country. It was shown at the Norwegian Pavilion at the Paris World’s Fair in 1937, next to Pablo Picasso’s Guernica (1937) at the Spanish Pavilion. Etiopia was also shown in 1939 at the New York World’s Fair, but there was a cloth covering the part of the scene with a spear piercing through Mussolini’s head.