SARA SHAOUL

 THE HETERONORMATIVE FAMILY IS NOT COMPATIBLE WITH FEMINISM

This version of a text and image project was commissioned by Old Stone House in Brooklyn, NY in 2024 as a public art project. I chose to place the site specific installation next to the playground, a fertile location for the consideration of gender, labor and parenting.

Part public service announcement, part provocation, the “cutout” stone people and signage draw inspiration from Italian theorist Carla Lonzi’s declaration that “the oppression of woman did not begin in historical times, but is buried in the obscurity of human origins.” The stones I arranged and photographed are from my parent’s home, a site not compatible with feminism.

The cutout figures were fabricated from UV printed aluminum.