The Vancouver Maritime Museum kicks off International Women’s Day with The Girls Are Coming! GlobeArts
Between 1862 and 1870, four steam-powered ships travelled from England to Victoria, B.C., packed with women and girls. The girls found themselves on board for a range of reasons, but overwhelmingly it was to escape a life without options. They were orphans, unmarried working girls or gentlewomen so old that they were considered spinsters. They were escaping desperate poverty or hopeless circumstances at home in London to take a chance on whatever might be on the other side of the ocean.
The women and girls spent 99 days in horrific conditions, considered cargo and tracked as an 'invoice.' McMenemy uses art and artifacts to tell the story.In 20 works, all created for this show, McMenemy uses maritime tools and materials – in particular, a falling-apart vintage sail that also worked as a central metaphor for the exhibition: the material is beautiful but visibly damaged; fragile, yet strong. For all it’s been through, it still exists, full of holes – but whole.
The installation The Girls Are Coming! feels like the centrepiece of the exhibition. It is created with a vintage wedding dress, puffed out over its crinolines and installed high on the wall against the sail.Beyond the personal horrors, there is also the political motivation of this endeavour.
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