Continuing environmental degradation that affects all human lives often has a more direct impact on women
Poster
1995 (made)
1995 (made)
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Lolli Aboutboul worked with the photographer Lana Wong to produce a set of 12 posters marking the Women's International Conference, Beijing, 1995. This was the fourth of a series of quinquennial World conferences on Women (Mexico 1980, Copenhagen 1985, Nairobi, 1990). The posters were exhibited in Beijing at the time of the Conference and in London at the 'What Women Want' Festival at the Royal Festival Hall, in August, the same year. They were distributed across Europe by the United Nations Environmental Programme and also shown in Nairobi in January 1997.
This image comprises a tree in a landscape, overlaid with a quotation from the African American writer, Alice Walker. The somewhat unusual tree looks naked, stripped down and vulnerable, its branches appear to reach out to either side like supplicatory arms. Its virtual symmetry and its positioning against a wide but distant landscape lends it an hieratic quality which recalls religious iconography. It seems to embody the inherent plea in Alice Walker's words.
This image comprises a tree in a landscape, overlaid with a quotation from the African American writer, Alice Walker. The somewhat unusual tree looks naked, stripped down and vulnerable, its branches appear to reach out to either side like supplicatory arms. Its virtual symmetry and its positioning against a wide but distant landscape lends it an hieratic quality which recalls religious iconography. It seems to embody the inherent plea in Alice Walker's words.
Object details
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| Title | Continuing environmental degradation that affects all human lives often has a more direct impact on women |
| Materials and techniques | Offset lithograph in black and red |
| Brief description | Poster for the campaign 'Empower Women Empower Earth', part of the United Nations Enivronmental Programme, 1995. Designed by Lolli Aboutboul; photographs by Lana Wong |
| Physical description | Photographic image with wide border. Photo is of a tree, possibly a species of pine, centred in the foreground apparently growing on a terrace, with a distant landscape of hills behind it. A caption in red is overprinted. It reads: 'It's essential that we understand that taking care of the planet will be done as we take care of ourselves' Beneath the image in smaller type is the caption: 'Quotation: 'Alice Walker from the Black Woman's Gumbo Ya-Ya, Quotations by Black Women, ed. Terri L. Jewell, The Crossing Press'. The title caption is below this. The poster is stamped with a circular logo of letters reading: Empower Women Empower Earth around the letters UNEP [for United Nations Environmental Programme] and the United Nations logo. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | Photography Lana Wong Design Lolli Aboutboul Concept Lolli Aboutboul and Lana Wong Printed on re-cycled paper |
| Credit line | Given by Lolli Aboutboul |
| Production | one poster from a set of 12 for the Campaign 'Empower Women, Empower Earth' for the United Nations Environmental Programme, 1995. The museum has three posters from the set. |
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| Literary reference | The Black Woman's Gumbo Ya-Ya:Quotations by Black Women. Ed. Terri L. Jewell, The Crossing Press, California, 1993 |
| Summary | Lolli Aboutboul worked with the photographer Lana Wong to produce a set of 12 posters marking the Women's International Conference, Beijing, 1995. This was the fourth of a series of quinquennial World conferences on Women (Mexico 1980, Copenhagen 1985, Nairobi, 1990). The posters were exhibited in Beijing at the time of the Conference and in London at the 'What Women Want' Festival at the Royal Festival Hall, in August, the same year. They were distributed across Europe by the United Nations Environmental Programme and also shown in Nairobi in January 1997. This image comprises a tree in a landscape, overlaid with a quotation from the African American writer, Alice Walker. The somewhat unusual tree looks naked, stripped down and vulnerable, its branches appear to reach out to either side like supplicatory arms. Its virtual symmetry and its positioning against a wide but distant landscape lends it an hieratic quality which recalls religious iconography. It seems to embody the inherent plea in Alice Walker's words. |
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| Accession number | E.273-1998 |
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| Record created | October 31, 2008 |
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