Photos by Eric Weeks.

Unknown Secrets (The Secret of the Rosenbergs)
1988

Installation with screenprinted black-and-white photographs on canvas, wooden towel rack with stenciled towel, Jell-O box, and photocopied text handout

Unknown Secrets addresses the fate of the young Jewish couple Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, who were convicted of conspiring to aid the Soviet Union’s development of atomic bomb technology and judicially electrocuted for espionage in 1953, on their wedding anniversary.