According to MoMA, Feminist art is “Art that seeks to challenge the dominance of men in both art and society, to gain recognition and equality for women artists, and question assumptions about womanhood. Beginning in the 1960s and 1970s, feminist artists used a variety of mediums—including painting, performance art, and crafts historically considered “women’s work”—to make work aimed at ending sexism and oppression and exposing femininity to be a masquerade or set of poses adopted by women to conform to societal expectations. While many of the debates inaugurated in these decades are still ongoing, a younger generation of feminist artists takes an approach incorporating intersecting concerns about race, class, forms of privilege, and gender identity and fluidity. Both feminism and feminist art continue to evolve.”
Even though the word feminism sounds quite segregational to me, I find myself inspired about women stories, past, present and future. It comes along my path all the time.
It started with finding many “photo trouvées” and vintage photographies of women on flee markets and thrift stores, an invitation to design a moonbelt for the Menarche Ritual Box (you find more info on Celebr’Arte, that is the project where I make tailored and personal art, based on people’s stories, to celebrate their milestones). And it continues along the way with women circles and organizing Brooke Medicine Eagle’s venue to Lier in october 2024.
I definitely can say some of my inspiration themes for my vintage collage art are womanhood, woman power, sisterhood, wild women and women stories. Clarissa Pinkola Estes’s book “Women who run with wolves” inspires me continuously and gives my creations a touch of shamanistic art in its ritual approach.