‘Humankind is represented by mankind … Fake news!’, said Judy Chicago, laughing, when she met Art Basel’s video team at the Institute of Contemporary Art Miami. Most of the artist’s forty-year-long career has been spent debunking that myth.
For the Birth Project (1980-85), Chicago turned her eye to what she saw as a major blind spot in art history: the representation of birth. Working with 150 volunteer needleworkers spread around the United States, she produced 85 needlepoint and textile works picturing women pregnant or giving birth, caught between joy and excruciating pain.
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