Helen CHADWICK British, 1953-1996
In the Kitchen, 1977
Set of 12 archival pigment prints (printed 2018)
Each: 41 x 30.5 cm
Edition 4 of 10 + 4 EC’s + 3 AP’s
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Considered seminal in the history of Feminist art, 'In the Kitchen' is one of Helen Chadwick's most provocative works. Originally conceived as a performance, it was first staged in 1977...
Considered seminal in the history of Feminist art, 'In the Kitchen' is one of Helen Chadwick's most provocative works. Originally conceived as a performance, it was first staged in 1977 at London’s Chelsea College of Art, where Chadwick studied for her MA. The performance featured the artist and three other female performers dressed in costumes that represented 'gendered' kitchen appliances: an oven, refrigerator, washing machine and kitchen sink. This series of twelve prints, made after the artist's untimely death in 1996, show Chadwick dressed in the four costumes, confronting and satirising the stereotype of women as domestic goddess or household slave.
Exhibitions
Women in Revolt!, Tate Britain, London, 2023Louise Bourgeois. Imaginary Conversations, National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design in Oslo, 2023
On Sexuality: Helen Chadwick & Penny Slinger, Richard Saltoun Gallery London, 2023
Gigantisme – Art et Industrie, FRAC | Grand Large – Hautes-de-France, Dunkerque, France, 2019
This Life is So Everyday: The Home in British Art 1950–1980, Graves Gallery, Sheffield, UK, 2019
Literature
Avant-Gardes au Prisme du Genre de 1945 à Nos Jours, Cahiers d'etudes germaniques, 2025, illustrated p. 184Cooking Cleaning Caring. Care-Work in the Arts since 1960, Josef Albers Museum, Illustrated pp. 256-257
Louise Bourgeois. Imaginary Conversations, Exhibition catalogue, Nasjonalmuseet for Kunst, Oslo illustrated page 81