Amy Nathan

Flush, per se, 2019

Flashe on wood with hardware

124 x 125 x 1 in. each

Presented by CULT Aimee Friberg, Booth A15

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Amy Nathan’s work examines the intersection of object and language as related to the female body from the ancient past to the present moment. Drawing from her early career as a typographer,  Amy Nathan deploys a set of symbols or “tools” to dismantle and reconfigure the female narrative. In this series, tools associated with female adornment appear throughout the work and represent the objects that we associate with how women present themselves to the world. Nathan states:

Flush, per se relates the small mechanisms women use to hold their bodies and lives together, to the words, will and strength required to do so. Repeated and regular use changes these objects–bobby pins, rope, zippers, safety pins, locks–into the alphabet women use to present ourselves in the face of contemporary culture and government. I am thinking about the ways that women keep their act together in the face of misogyny, governmental control of our bodies, the constant giving of motherhood and just in being a woman