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To Future Women

 

To Future Women (2018, 2037) is a twenty-year time capsule of letters written by the public to the next generation of women, memorialising the 2017 Women's March and #MeToo movement.

Presented across five museums and art spaces in Washington D.C. on the one year anniversary of the Women's March, it received over 3000 letters in 10 different languages, including from Hillary Clinton, Jill Biden, three generations of one family, a kindergarten class, and an incarcerated man.

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To Future Women archives the desperate longings and desires of real people fearing the loss of women's bodily autonomy and civic rights, using the intimacy of the letter form to ground political resistance in a personal human relationship across time.

Operating under the premise that what a culture ritualizes is what it finds valuable, To Future Women questions how we remember and ritualize women's histories of resistance, instrumentalizing art institutions as makers of culture and history. By framing the archive as an artwork and embedding re-exhibition in the contract, she holds the museum contractually accountable as a caretaker of women's protest histories.

To Future Women is currently inhabiting The Phillips Collection Archive until 2037, when it will be re-exhibited on January 21, the 20th anniversary of the Women's March.