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| author | Kukaine, Jana |
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| contents | <p><span>This essay addresses the realities, tensions and contradictions of food culture </span><span>in postsocialist states. The main discussion is on the Latvian art scene,</span><span> particularly the work of artists Aija Jurj</span><span>ā</span><span>ne</span><span><span> </span>(1944</span><span>–</span><span>2015) and Rasa Jansone</span><span><span> </span>(b. 1973). Aija Jurj</span><span>ā</span><span>ne was a teacher in an art school and her paintings, as well as countless drawings, mostly reflected her private domestic space and family life, including the kitchen – simultaneously an asylum, confinement, and an artist’s studio. The second artist is Rasa Jansone. In her collages and installations, she weaves the stories of her mother and grandmother with the postsocialist food </span><span>politics and the feminized labour of care work. Of special interest is her</span><span> installation Diet (2017), which consisted of more than 400 items of jarred food (pickles and jams) – an experiment to perform the foodwork that was part of her grandmother’s annual routine. By attending to the representation of the kitchen both as a physical and symbolic space, the essay explores how the construction of postsocialist femininity is intertwined with food practices, shaping the position of women artists.</span></p> |
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| spellingShingle | It's Your Fault! Feminist Art, Foodwork and the Postsocialist Kitchen Kukaine, Jana Art Sociology <p><span>This essay addresses the realities, tensions and contradictions of food culture </span><span>in postsocialist states. The main discussion is on the Latvian art scene,</span><span> particularly the work of artists Aija Jurj</span><span>ā</span><span>ne</span><span><span> </span>(1944</span><span>–</span><span>2015) and Rasa Jansone</span><span><span> </span>(b. 1973). Aija Jurj</span><span>ā</span><span>ne was a teacher in an art school and her paintings, as well as countless drawings, mostly reflected her private domestic space and family life, including the kitchen – simultaneously an asylum, confinement, and an artist’s studio. The second artist is Rasa Jansone. In her collages and installations, she weaves the stories of her mother and grandmother with the postsocialist food </span><span>politics and the feminized labour of care work. Of special interest is her</span><span> installation Diet (2017), which consisted of more than 400 items of jarred food (pickles and jams) – an experiment to perform the foodwork that was part of her grandmother’s annual routine. By attending to the representation of the kitchen both as a physical and symbolic space, the essay explores how the construction of postsocialist femininity is intertwined with food practices, shaping the position of women artists.</span></p> |
| title | It's Your Fault! Feminist Art, Foodwork and the Postsocialist Kitchen |
| topic | Art Sociology |
| url | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20175637 |