SIGN-IN
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SIGN-IN is the first comprehensive retrospective devoted to the artist Tina Girouard (b. Louisiana, USA, 1946–2020). Girouard was a dedicated experimental artist, collaborator, and art worker, whose practice contributed to feminist movements in art, craft, performance, and video. She was also, in 1983, the first woman to stage a solo exhibition at the Museo Tamayo, Vámonos a México. Over forty two years later, SIGN-IN presents the full arc of Girouard’s practice, articulating the artist’s lifelong inquiries into retooling materials and co-creating spaces.
Central to Girouard’s practice was the notion of “maintenance,” a process of upkeep that recognized and affirmed the spirituality of everyday objects and interactions. The artist’s habitual and ritual acts of maintenance extended to domestic labor traditionally associated with “women’s work.” For Girouard each space, whether domestic or artistic, was a site of possibility for re-imagining how to expand ideas of collectivity…
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SIGN-IN
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SIGN-IN is the first comprehensive retrospective devoted to the artist Tina Girouard (b. Louisiana, USA, 1946–2020). Girouard was a dedicated experimental artist, collaborator, and art worker, whose practice contributed to feminist movements in art, craft, performance, and video. She was also, in 1983, the first woman to stage a solo exhibition at the Museo Tamayo, Vámonos a México. Over forty two years later, SIGN-IN presents the full arc of Girouard’s practice, articulating the artist’s lifelong inquiries into retooling materials and co-creating spaces.
Central to Girouard’s practice was the notion of “maintenance,” a process of upkeep that recognized and affirmed the spirituality of everyday objects and interactions. The artist’s habitual and ritual acts of maintenance extended to domestic labor traditionally associated with “women’s work.” For Girouard each space, whether domestic or artistic, was a site of possibility for re-imagining how to expand ideas of collectivity…
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