Domestic Scene (2)

In the Domestic Scene installation, the artist puts together a symbolic microcosm by gathering and arraying – strung up on a washing line – a diverse range of objects drawn from her artistic and personalvocabulary: drawings of flowers, small-scale abstract paintings, ermine furs belonging to her grandmother, lace family heirlooms, a paper serpent, and the apple of Eve. The washing line – that quintessential symbol of both household labour and the everyday realities faced by women – functions as a display structure, transferring the “domestic scene” into the public and visual realm of artistic experience. The installation’s various parts convey multiple layers of historical and cultural reference: Eve’s apple alludes to longstanding connections linking women to desire, temptation, and incrimination; the serpent only bolsters the biblical allegory, while the pieces of lace and other handcrafted works evoke the manual labour undertaken by women, and the intergenerational transfer of knowledge and roles. Similarly, the ermine furs – historically associated with more male, hunter-centric, or power-wielding identities – serve to underline the gendered hierarchies that permeate both domestic and societal spheres.