A Place For Everything and Everything In Its Place
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Through the combination of rudimentary mechanical stop-motion and intricate disorienting collage created from archival women’s interest magazines, A Place for Everything and Everything In Its Place weaves together both jarring and lulling elements, evoking a sense of domestic neurosis. Inspired in part by Ira Levin’s satirical feminist horror The Stepford Wives, the piece explores the effect of the Industrial Revolution of the home through a literal objectification of women anthropomorphized into household appliances and fixtures. The piece beckons the viewer to rub their eyes and discern the women carrying the invisible workload.
