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On February 27th, the group exhibition “Labour of Love” opens in Berlin, featuring 13 female artists. Launching on Equal Pay Day, the exhibition sheds light on invisible labor, gender-specific power structures, and the connection between artistic production and everyday care work. Everyday rituals and gestures of care are placed at the center of the exhibition to rediscover their social and aesthetic significance.
What can be drawn from everyday life beyond the endlessly repeated cycles of washing up, shopping, cleaning and care? And who assigns value to this work? These questions form the conceptual foundation of an exhibition that examines the persistent gender pay gap, invisible labour, and the structural inequalities that continue to shape by female* artists’ production and visibility, and ultimately, their livelihood.
For millennia, women have been responsible for the big and small things of our world – securing the continuation of human existence to provide an organized life, there is truly nothing that isn’t directly connected to a woman’s work, rarely receiving either recognition or financial compensation. This labour has long been framed as …
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