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“It deals with decay, it deals with birth and also the idea of the timeline of being a woman. That’s why the theme of the show, Maiden, Mother, Crone, is so particular – because the problem with our society now is that it’s only interested in the maiden. But women come into their own after menopause. They actually become very honed and very laser-focused on exactly what they want.” — Rachel Feinstein
Starting out our Women’s History Month programming, we are sharing with you this trailer for the Rachel Feinstein exhibition at the Jewish Museum in New York. One of the most accomplished artists of her generation, Rachel Feinstein (b. 1971, Fort Defiance, AZ) is currently featured in her first museum survey, Maiden, Mother, Crone, on view for just a few weeks longer, until March 22, 2020. In this exhibition trailer from the Jewish Museum, Feinstein talks about the themes of women’s lives that run throughout three decades of her diverse bodies of work.
From the Jewish Museum:
Rachel Feinstein‘s art is defined by dualities: her investigations of masculinity and femininity or good and evil are echoed in her formal explorations of balance and precariousness or positive and negative space. Her subjects, too, are drawn from oppositions and tensions: religion and fairy tales, high European craft and low American kitsch, her needs as an artist and the needs of her family. She explores these conflicts through characters borrowed from biblical and folk sources as well as objects from material culture, deconstructed and reimagined, suggesting that there is no fact without fiction, light without darkness, tranquility without chaos.
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The exhibition’s title names three consequential stages in a woman’s life, a progression from youth to old age that also signals her accumulation of knowledge and complexity. Here, Feinstein is thinking of the neopagan deity the Triple Goddess—a simultaneous embodiment of maiden, mother, and crone—in whom past and present, inexperience and wisdom, fragility and power are inextricably entwined.
