Baby Got Back, Bag, Back, Bag, Back, 2020. Hemp fiber concrete, special effect paint, chalk paint, pigment, felt. Interdimensionale II, Gammelgaard. Photo by David Stjernholm.
Mini bag, 2020. 14,8 x 21 cm. Felt, special effect paint, lavender potpourri, hand dyed upcycled cotton. Galleri Tom Christoffersen, Donation exhibition for NGO Zaher’s work in Libanon.
Baby got back, Bag, Back, Bag Back
Baby got back, Bag, Back, Bag Back is a giant ladies’ bag made of sustainable hemp fiber concrete. A big flower made of felt in a traditional crafty style, adorns the front of the bag. On the “back” an open wound is painted with special effects paint.
The bag points to the metaphorical luggage we carry around with us, the history of the handbag in the liberation of women and the objectification of the female body. Naivety meets femininity meets consumption meets violence.
The title of the work riffs on Sir-Mix-A-Lot’s 90’s hit praising big butts and the two homonyms word “bag” and “back” that interchange as the body turns into an object, then back again, then back again: body, object, body, object …
“Bag—back—back—bag. It was impossible to escape the unbearable significance of the transposition. My back would henceforth be a bag.”
– Rita Valencia, Indecency
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Baby Got Back, Bag, Back, Bag, Back, 2020. Hemp fiber concrete, special effect paint, chalk paint, pigment, felt. Interdimensionale II, Gammelgaard. Photo by David Stjernholm.
Mini bag, 2020. 14,8 x 21 cm. Felt, special effect paint, lavender potpourri, hand dyed upcycled cotton. Galleri Tom Christoffersen, Donation exhibition for NGO Zaher’s work in Libanon.
Baby got back, Bag, Back, Bag Back
Baby got back, Bag, Back, Bag Back is a giant ladies’ bag made of sustainable hemp fiber concrete. A big flower made of felt in a traditional crafty style, adorns the front of the bag. On the “back” an open wound is painted with special effects paint.
The bag points to the metaphorical luggage we carry around with us, the history of the handbag in the liberation of women and the objectification of the female body. Naivety meets femininity meets consumption meets violence.
The title of the work riffs on Sir-Mix-A-Lot’s 90’s hit praising big butts and the two homonyms word “bag” and “back” that interchange as the body turns into an object, then back again, then back again: body, object, body, object …
“Bag—back—back—bag. It was impossible to escape the unbearable significance of the transposition. My back would henceforth be a bag.”
– Rita Valencia, Indecency
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