Meanwhile, back at the ranch
Museum of Contemporary Art
Sydney, Australia, 2010


Merging an American-born dance craze with an American-born polygamous sect in order to explore ideas of membership, rituals of endurance, and non-heteronormativity.

The Sister-Wife Project is part of an ongoing investigation of Ellsworth’s  family’s lineage of Mormon polygamy focusing on those who often go unseen within this patriarchal construct.











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