Carter Burden Gallery
With or Without Women
- Elisabeth Jacobsen,
- Carol Massa
- Elisabeth Jacobsen,
- Carol Massa
In the installation with or without women, Carol Massa and Elisabeth Jacobsen create an environment through the lens of contemporary social consciousness. Using humble imagery and natural materials the artists offer a vision of a primitive woman not bound by male-centric traditions and expectations. The artists present the strength and traits of these women of the primeval forest, as nurturers and mothers, shaped by the personification of Nature as a female, as a life-giver. Massa and Jacobsen construct this installation to applaud and encourage the present movement of women on the ground, marching, insisting on basic rights for women, gender parity and even Mother Earth in society and culture.