Big Ups to Brooklyn

hello fine peoples,

I don't have much but check it out yo!

Brooklyn Museum recently opened the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art with an exhibition entitled Global Feminisms. I particularly like this photography piece entitled Bind by Ryoko Suzuki.

From the artist:

"The idea of "pig is cute" was implanted in me by adults through a cartoon, the "Three Little Pigs." However, breeding pigs I saw at a pig farm, when I was a child, were so huge and ferocious that I could never find any cuteness in them. That was the first time I realized that the fairytale world was far from the reality, and I felt betrayed by adults. That is why I employ the "Three Little Pigs" as a symbol of lies and fictions given by adults, which become exposed sooner or later in the process of a child's growth.

The "Bind" series expresses my inner self; a grown-up who left the world given by my parents and other adults and acquired my own thinking, and a woman who has to deal with the female sexuality. In the series, I bound myself with pigskin, which has been soaked in blood as a symbol of womanhood, as a symbol of the given world. I was thinking of my life, in which I had transformed from a child who just took what adults provided, to a woman who led her own life, while I wrapped up my eyes, nose, mouth, and ears with the pigskin. The series is a record of this action."
—Ryoko Suzuki

Check out more exhibition highlights:

http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/global_feminisms/

Any thoughts?

Peace and Love.