documentation of Right Eye/Left Eye film installation - San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery
ALL THE WOMEN / ALL THE MEN
site-specific projection installation exhibited at Independent Light: Installations by Bay Area Artists, presented by the San Francisco Cinémathèque at 275 Capp Street in 1992
All the Women/All the Men is a response to the more than 600 laws that were introduced into state legislatures in the six years prior to 1992 limiting a woman's control over her own body. This work reflects on this perverse reality and on the exhibition's fugitive urban site in a largely Hispanic neighborhood above a street lined with sex workers. The projections consist of a single slide projected onto a examining room drape and 2 video monitors displaying two blank lists: "All the women who've enjoyed getting an abortion..." and "All the men who've ever been pregnant..." Other elements in this 400-square-foot installation include appropriated texts from news accounts of violence against clinics, ads from the 1950s aimed at adolescent girls, and vintage waiting room furniture found at the site. Collaborator: Bill Baldewicz