The two weaving works are inspired by the Nvshu culture in Jiangyong County, Yongzhou City, Hunan Province, China. This is a kind of writing that is only passed down from generation to generation among women. It is a representative of the era when women did not have access to education opportunities. A product of female power. The two works are respectively the way “desire” and “independence” are written in female scriptures, implying the entanglement and confrontation between the selfish desire for reproduction in a patriarchal society and the independence of women’s bodies and minds.
The concept expressed by the embroidery works is: men try to hide the cost and damage of childbearing from women, and use this sugar-coated cannonball to reach out to girls who have not yet decided whether to become mothers. In their eyes, the only useful thing about girls is sexual value and reproductive value.
Chris Marsh | Textiles
