GATES is an multi-generational and interdisciplinary installation and the fourth collaboration between Los Angeles based artists Galia Linn (b. Israel, 1963) and Amanda Maciel Antunes (b. Brazil, 1987) that references the fractured and mythic qualities of the unapologetic. Our common materials being yarn, wood, canvas, paint, writing, glass and textiles, build the tension between the soft and the firm, the domestic and the creative, the known and the unknown, that reveal our roles as both witnesses and participants in our lives.

Performance and Installation at Track 16 Gallery as part of Irrational Exhibits 11, 2019.

Duration: 2 hours

Often times, as artists, as immigrants, and as women, the source of strength which we need when the outer world fails us, comes from another woman, and we connected as such. This collaboration creates a place where we condense the interpretation of myths that’s become increasingly disseminated in contemporary memory. We dig into our differences, unwind the courses of our lives, see what remains, and agree to meet there again. We want to learn to distinguish between the false selves that our culture has enforced on us, and the true parts of our femininity which we want to preserve. In this collaboration we tell the stories denied to women; re-imagining the past, present and future of living within a body designated as female.

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