AGA LAB Amsterdam 2024

AGA LAB is an artist run print studio in Amsterdam for artists, photographers, and designers. I was fortunate enough to be chosen as an Artist in Residence for the month of July where I focused on screen printing.

My project was about ecofeminism, the belief that women and animals are oppressed in similar ways as a result of a male dominated society, a topic I explored for my Bachelor’s thesis in college. This time I got to explore it visually and typographically using language and imagery.











Process:






Their Common Oppression:
A Patriarchal World

The residency finished with an exhibition of everyone’s work, four of us in total, at De Bouwput Gallery.

I chose to create a “meat shop” setup for my display
to put my prints in context. I had images of meat beside real PETA campaigns and my own prints around them promoting ‘fresh meat’ and ‘large breasts’. My own take on the PETA campaign ‘I’d Rather Go Naked Than Wear Fur’ was displayed on the wall above, replacing ‘go naked’ with ‘be respected’. I included an extra element of a newspaper layout as well. The newspaper headlines were taken from journals of the Feminists
for Animal Rights group, who were active in the 90’s,
as a homage to their work.