A Posthumous Kaari Upson Retrospective Asks You to Confront Your Tenderness and Your Cruelty

Visitors entering “Doll House,” Kaari Upson’s posthumous retrospective at Denmark’s Louisiana Museum, immediately confront a disconcerting threshold: Two panels of simulated chain-link fence, crafted from latex and coated in drab peach acrylic paint that mimics slightly tanned Caucasian skin, hang side-by-side on the wall like a Christian diptych. One panel of the netting has a gaping tear, as if some desperate person—or beast—had tried to break either in or o