Both artists use transparency to great effect in their installations, McInnes says. It helps them create a facsimile of the phenomenon of history. So there's a sense of layering, which is very important. The work leaps across continents and epochs. Ala. Like Beautiful Youth, Ritual and Revolution is more cumulative than linear.
Visitors can leave and reenter the partial corridors created by the muslin banners.
The only thing that's really set is her voice, which continues. Weems recorded an audio text to accompany the banners, which plays on a tape-loop, contributing yet another layer to the installation. But their concepts and their concerns have led them to some similar strategies. I find both quite compelling.