
Louise Bourgeois, The Fragile, 207

Louise Bourgeois, The Fragile, 207
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Ex Voto (1985). Renate Bertlmann

Renate Bertlmann
Zärtliche Berührungen (Tender Touches), 1976
Hans Bellmer, The Doll
Sarah Lucas, Cigarette Tits (1999)


Rona Pondick, Milk Body Politics, 1989

“Vicky Hodgett, Susan Frazier and Robin Weltsch’s Nurturant Kitchen featured “Eggs to Breasts”, a pink kitchen with walls covered in breasts, evokes woman as a feeder in the heart of the house. Woman feeds with her kitchen, feeds children with her breasts and feeds man with her body. Culturally propagated stereotypes of womanhood are obsessively repeated in the kitchen – the colour pink and breasts.
Rather than celebrating these feminine attributes, a claustrophobic and surrealist cavern is created, reminiscent of Bourgeois’s grotesque, anthropomorphic body parts, and Yayoi Kusama’s repetitive dot works, which symbolised her decent into madness. The approximation of eggs and breasts also suggest a woman’s reproductive capabilities and thus her primary function, as well as a shortened evolutionary path – from egg (a foetus) to breast (a mother).”
