Mrs. Murray

From 4. April 2020 (email exchange): “This is a strange installation work that I would like to put forward, a sort of corner collage… Luce Irigaray and Carolee Schneemann are also here in the installation… The final pic is me as a baby with my mother Marjorie.” – SMW.

From 4. April 2020 (email exchange): “This is a strange installation work that I would like to put forward, a sort of corner collage… Luce Irigaray and Carolee Schneemann are also here in the installation… The final pic is me as a baby with my mother Marjorie.” – SMW.

From 4. April 2020 (email exchange): “This is a strange installation work that I would like to put forward, a sort of corner collage… Luce Irigaray and Carolee Schneemann are also here in the installation… The final pic is me as a baby with my mother Marjorie.” – SMW.

“My mother holding a coat in a pancake restaurant in NY. I was working at the MET. The Unicorn tapestry. I was an intern, I would give tours and research how the nuns would live back in the 1400s. Maybe it’s me who doesn’t trust whenever someone has an alternative aesthetic and sometimes the behavior doesn’t match it. It’s much weirder when you are punk on the inside. I feel like I have a multi-colored mohawk even if I don’t look it. When it doesn’t match, you pay more attention to the behaviour. I was never so good at maintaining appearances. Gathering power through specific aesthetics. We construct our image or our image construct us somehow. Constructed image is not my strong point.” – AC and SMW.

...when the twin towers were still there…

“Construction of your own history. What you remember and what you don’t remember. The history that I feel part of is abstract expression.” – SMW and AC.

“Pancake restaurant with HUGE cakes (something like 5 dinner plates big!). Could eat for the next few days. Photo taken when visited with mother.” – SMW.

“I never thought I would have any help with anything.” – SMW.

“Imagine someone in the 15th century thinking: ‘I'm gonna make a tapestry about unicorns.’ Circa 93/94 when I was an intern at the cloisters collection (NY). A responsibility to be gentle to other people – like men are not with sex.” –SMW.

“Jewish religion I grew up was widely homophobic, also bad for women. A little family picture with my favourite grandparents (Dad’s parents, Gene and Dee)-they were poor and they were open-minded. One time I said no to sex only. My freudian psychoanalyst was a grandfather-they won’t give an inch. Rewriting for the person or against the person. Trauma trickles down generations. The sweetness of the patriarchy-claiming compensation for trauma and violence.” – SMW and AC.