Katrina Majkut “In Control”
chashama Window Space (266 W 37th St. )
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“In Control” defies the traditional medium and subjects of cross-stitch and instead responds to the increasing debates and turmoil over women’s reproductive rights and safety. Historically, embroidered “samplers” only showed a woman how to keep a household, children and a husband. Majkut rejects the obsolete, domestic functionality of samplers through a comprehensive inventory of women’s medical, menstrual and contraceptive products—products that continue to be on the periphery of legality and social approval. She has turned the medium into a contemporary woman’s demonstration of a woman’s ability to care for and right to control her own body.
“‘In Control’ challenges biased notions of womanhood and motherhood,” says Majkut. “More dialogue is needed about the complicated medical needs of women to be autonomous and healthy, their right to have control of their bodies, and how poorly understood it all often is.”
Women’s physical safety and medical rights have come under extreme scrutiny these past few years as a result of the Hobby Lobby verdict, “personhood” bills, campus policies and responses (or lack thereof) toward sexual assault, anti-abortion legislation and more. Therefore, it is no mistake that the show’s opening coincides with the 66th anniversary of The Pill.
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Schedule
from June 16, 2015 to June 28, 2015
Open hours: June 16-20, 23-25: 2-7pm, June 28: 1-5pm Private viewings available by appointment.
Opening Reception on 2015-06-18 from 18:00 to 21:00