El tendedero
Mónica Mayer
The Clothesline
Monica Mayer is one of the earliest artists to have taken an interest and a position and produced output in relation to feminism in Mexico. Mayer invited 800 women to complete the sentence: “As a woman, what I dislike most about the city is...” on pieces of pink paper. Each of the answers was mounted on a structure that alluded to a clothesline, as a reference to a daily activity considered women’s work, to open a dialogue about the violence that women experience in public space.
This piece was presented for the first time in a collective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in Mexico City. A second version was created in Los Angeles in 1979 as part of the visual project Making it Safe by Suzanne Lacy. The piece has been reactivated in other contexts.
Mónica Mayer
El tendedero
[The Clothesline]
1978
Documentary series of The Clothesline, folder 1/5
documents 1978-1979
folder produced in 2014
40 × 50 cm
