IWONA LEMKE KONART Women’s art (Sztuka Kobiet) 1978-1982 mail art project.
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A pun on male art/mail art, the ironic title of this series of photographs which were distributed via the mail, is also a veiled, somewhat wistful, allusion to feminism. While the women’s liberation movement was strong in the late ‘70s, in Poland at that time the empowerment of women seemed more a dream than a reality. That said, unlike some women artists I knew who were trying to connect with the international women’s movement, I didn’t aspire to be a hard-core fighter for the cause. Instead of using postal stamps, my mail art project incorporated the rubber-stamped words “Women’s Art.” Assuming different female personae, in some of these pictures I am wearing a typical worker’s uniform. In others I am projecting a more sensual, feminine attitude.

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