border incident 1984
By
Pen Dalton
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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