MOMA PS1: 9/11 Exhibition

George Segal's "Woman on a Park Bench" (1998) sits calmly at the head of Roger Hiorns's "Untitled" (2006).

MOMA PS1 has created an exhibition about the September 11 attacks. In this gallery you can find everything from photographs, paintings, sculptures related to this attack. One of the most impressive was George Segal's sculpture "woman on a park bench" (1998). Here you can see how the woman is looking at the ashes that remained of the twin towers and the people who made it out alive from this attack. Segal died a year before the attacks. His sculpture existed 3 years before “everything changed.” And yet both artist and art seem perfectly apt for the occasion. The woman in white seated on a bench could have been one of the survivors who fled the clouds of debris racing through the streets. We see her frozen in a moment of respite. Segal’s Woman on a Park Bench could be one of those victims in the moment of resignation, taking the time to put her affairs in order.