border incident 1984
By <a href="https://axisweb.org/artist/pendalton"
title="Pen Dalton"
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Pen Dalton
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1985
printed in the 80's during the occupation of Greenham Common. Depicts women using bolt cutters to tear down the barriers analogously juxtaposed with illustrations of an episiotomy - the cutting of the perineum during childbirth.
The anthropologist Mary Douglas described borders as dangerous places and those who inhabit borders - being neither 'one thing or another ' - as feared and powerful: lesbians, pregnant women, feminists.
Touchstones, Rochdale Art Gallery
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