RESISTANCE: A FIVE YEAR RETROSPECTIVE#5

Catalina Swinburn

Fissures as metaphores of resistance

FISSURES AS METAPHORES OF RESISTANCE – fragment of the video 6min

Weaving to redefine roles within a limited—and limiting—social environment. Weaving as a symbol of a woman’s domestic role to wield power that has repercussions far beyond the domestic sphere, women as authors of their own destinies, resisting social pressures, challenging and defying the expectations of those who would exert control over them.

First published in June 2020

Esther Shalev-Gerz

Earth one

First published on June 2021

Maithili Bavkar

Sowing seeds

First published on February 2022

Jane Watt

Wash my feet

First published in February 2020

Michelle Deignan

Let us play

First published on January 2023

piyarat Piyapongwiwat

First published on July 2020

Mutsumi Tsuda

First published on May 2020

Sudha Padmaja Francis

First published on October 2022

Ivana Vollaro

First published on March 2021

andrea blum

Corona Diary

First published on April 2020

Kasia Ozga

Milk bar

Milk Bar, participatory art installation, 52 bars of soap produced from breast milk, September 25-30, 2022

In September, I flew to France alone for a week to hang a solo show Œkoumène (Ecumene) at l’Angle, an art center in La Roche-sur-Foron in the Alps. I have a 9 month-old baby that I usually breastfeed multiple times a day. I collected all of the breast milk that my body produced as I was preparing my exhibition and turned it into soap. The bars of soap were given away for free to the public during the show’s opening night. My action came from a desire to foreground the relationship between my body right here (right now) and the neutral white cube of the exhibition space.

First published on October 2022