简介：In Dough, women are squished alone into tiny compartments like boxed jewels or battery farm hens. With their cells linked by a system of tubes, shoots and holes, they all perform bizarre functions in a production line. This culminates with a teardrop drawn by sniffing flowers, which runs down a huge woman's dimpled legs and then drips off her toe through a hole in the floor to impregnate a lump of dough beneath, which is then vacuum-packed. It shows a neat division of labour in the creation of pointless products, with implications that reach way beyond the beauty industry, to capitalism's mindless cycle of production and consumption. Rottenberg's boxed-in workforce has much to say about a culture that at once idolises, fetishises and exploits women's bodies – from female sweatshop workers to the desirable distortions of pin-up girls. Works like Dough first made the Buenos Aires-born, New York-based artist's name in the mid-2000s. More recently, she's broadened her vision, tackling globalisation and a shrinking world.
https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/17312
