Fashion, Fiber, Feminism is a group exhibition featuring a selection of banners from the 100 Women Project, curated by Caren Rudman

100 Women: Collaborations Beyond the Veil presents large scale photographic banners of contemporary women to address the historical lack of visibility of women in public space. Unlike singular bronze or stone statues that valorize men as heroic, via war or conquest, this chorus of women suggests another kind of monument that is non-hierarchical, fluid and transparent, interdependent and connected. Originally conceived to mark the 100th anniversary of the United States’ 19th Amendment, the banners are a gesture to offset the present gap and encourage future representation of real women, rather than as abstract attributes such as chastity or virtue, or muses for others. Each woman stands with a hand to the heart and one on the abdomen, to acknowledge and honor these seats of wisdom long disavowed by patriarchy.

100 Women: Collaborations Beyond the Veil elevates a diverse group of women as a corrective, healing gesture and creates a contemporary visual archive of women on the subject of liberty. Each woman metaphorically stands for the multitudes of women being affected by new restrictive voting laws, laws that disregard women’s bodily autonomy, and laws that particularly and disproportionately impact poor women and women of color who already experience unequal treatment across cultural, economic, and political sectors.

The right to self-determination has always been a contested right for women. 100 Women: Collaborations Beyond the Veil alludes to what we miss when women are denied rightful representation in the form of public monuments and reconnects people with the truth of women’s leadership in history, by offering meaningful, contemporary examples of the impact that each woman has in the world, especially when in solidarity with other women.