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During their time at the gallery, the women have talked a lot about what it means to be female and the intersection between gender and art. During one of their conversations, [Tara Jensen] asked [Wylie Sofia Garcia] if she was a feminist. Though her textile works deal with the "human condition of being a woman," Garcia says, she balked at the question. "I'm more hesitant to call myself a feminist, even though, underlying everything, that's what I'm doing," she admits.
Jensen's work also addresses female issues such as birth, abortion and menstruation, but in a different medium. During her residency, she has created a body of work called "Heavy Flow," which features a "witch hut" made from sticks and silk-screened fabric and filled with handmade dolls and papier-mâché creatures. The hut represents Jensen's need for female guidance at a difficult time in her life, she says.Being under the same roof has given Garcia and Jensen opportunities to talk about their parallel lives, about the common themes in their work, and about being women in their twenties. "It hit us this year: Fuck, we're women? Jensen says. "These things are happening in our late' twenties, and now we have to speak to that. The most important thing is that we keep talking and everything is laid out on the table."See the full content of this document
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Women's Work: Two Artists Talk About the Female Experience
It's rare to hear young women today describe themselves as feminists. By the time they came of age, feminism was largely seen as having achieved the goals of the movement's second wave. And it was associated w...
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