MARKETOU, Jenny

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Description

Amazons of the Next Millenium, 1996
Wood box, paper tags

"As the title suggests, my box is a symbol of the Amazons, female warriors, who lived and fought together in a migratory way of life during the golden age. My box is filled with a series of women's names (two hundred) of all nationalities from antiquity to the present, printed in capital letters, in different colors on white paper tags. Each of the names brings into mind images of a woman we know, we read, we are, or we want to be.

This box filled with names, which come out from all gour sides, becomes almost invisible and signifies the power, the strength, the importance, the influence and the voice we women could achieve working together, for our rights against violence and discrimination at the beginning of the next millenium."

- Jenny Marketou

Date

1996

Creator

MARKETOU, Jenny
b. Greece, 1954
Created in Greece

Source

Women Beyond Borders Art Collection founded by Lorraine Serena

Identifier

2023.005.160

Citation

MARKETOU, Jenny, b. Greece, 1954, and Created in Greece, “MARKETOU, Jenny,” UCSB ADA Museum Omeka, accessed December 10, 2024, http://art-collections.museum.ucsb.edu/items/show/16942.