The Girl Who Stepped on Bread

Barbara Rose Haum creates text-based portraits of women that seek to construct a language outside of patriarchal representational codes. For this installation, a thick layer of flour, representing a nourishing earth, extends across the floor. Baking trays containing goose feathers and glass inkwells are filled with a suggestive red liquid, and small sculptures of flour molded from baking tins cover a worktable. Scattered strands of red thread lead to a display of aged cookbooks and five wooden chests containing decorative family silver. As a complement to the objects, printed text on parchment displays narratives in which women’s identities have been conceived through language.

In conjunction with this residency, Art in General publishes a brochure with a text by Jo Anna Isaak. It can be downloaded here for free. For a printed version, purchase this publication along with the entire set of Art in General’s residency brochures in the online store for only $5.

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