Artist:
LeCleire, Catherine
Title:
The Women Who Clean Our Houses
Date:
2005
Object Name:
Print
Description:
Catherine LeCleire is trained as a printmaker and a bookbinder, and her printed works and artist's books can be viewed and engaged with on two different scales; fully unfurled and displayed across large surfaces, and folded or rolled up and contained within custom-made bindings and boxes. These silkscreened panels, printed on continuous roll towels manufactured for commercial dispensers that you might find in a public restroom, each convey a vertical cascade of blurry black and white photographs of women's faces against a patterned backdrop of chromosome pairs and a double helix spiral. The rolls are displayed here in their entirety, but the viewer can imagine pulling a small section of each roll out of a dispenser at a time, wiping their hands dry, and watching the used towel disappear as a new section advances for the next user. The Women Who Clean Our Houses calls out the unseen, unacknowledged, and anonymous nature of domestic and custodial labor, historically performed by women and members of marginalized groups. 50 x 50 inches (installed).
Technique:
silkscreen
Source:
LeCleire, Catherine
Object ID:
2005.5.1
Copyright:
Catherine LeCleire. Reproduced with permission from the artist.
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