International Women's Day 2018: Four women artists are resisting domesticity with a Home Strike
A group of women artists are taking on the feminist fight that starts at home in a new Shoreditch exhibition.
Home Strike, which opens on March 8 at L’Etrangere, features the work of four artists who are all responding to the feminisation of the home.
Istanbul-based CANAN, Paula Chambers, Malgorzata Markiewicz and Seventies feminist art pioneer Su Richardson have contributed a collection of works that span film, performance, sculpture and even crochet.
The exhibition looks to revisit the pertinent questions of domestic biopolitics addressed by feminist causes in the Seventies, and considers their relationship with contemporary feminist ideas of gender, race and class.
Richardson will present crocheted works from the era, which will be shown alongside recent film work The Resistance Kitchen by Markiewicz, and barricade-style sculpture Domestic Front by Chambers.
Artist and activist CANAN will present 2000 work Fountain, a work which looks to feminise Marcel Duchamp’s famed sculpture. Instead of a urinal, CANAN’s fountain is a lactating breast.
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Home Strike runs at L’etrangere from March 8 – April 21, for more information visit letrangere.net
