AS LONG AS GENERATIONS CHANGE BUT OUR STRUGGLES STAY THE SAME, I WILL BE A FEMINIST.

Net #27

October 2022 - February 2023

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SOLANGE goes to Washington! After 26 large-scale embroidery interventions on construction sites in Europe and Morocco, Austrian artist Katharina Cibulka is taking a big leap and bringing her serial art project to public space in the United States.

The NMWA (National Museum of Women in the Arts) in Washington D.C. has invited the artist to cover approximately 1000 m² of its façade with her largest embroidered scaffolding net to date. This is a great honor and new challenge for Cibulka. Her oversized pink messages advocate a fair society beyond the boundaries of gender, race, background and religion.

In keeping with the participatory spirit of SOLANGE, the NMWA initiated an open call for friends of the museum to submit their own ideas for a SOLANGE sentence. From these submissions, a central theme soon emerged: the sobering fact that many (feminist) demands have been made repeatedly for decades and yet remained unfulfilled. Echoing the saying “The more things change, the more they stay the same,” Cibulka and her team developed a sentence aimed at a broad, critically thinking public:

AS LONG AS GENERATIONS CHANGE BUT OUR STRUGGLES STAY THE SAME, I WILL BE A FEMINIST.