“Lorraine and Frank — through invitation, workshops and exhibitions — provided purpose, space and resources for artmaking in diverse, sometimes troubled, geopolitical contexts, with the support of local cultural agents, and in so doing, fostered a community around the globe that remembers Women Beyond Borders fondly for its capacity of inciting change and dialogue,” said Cobra Lima. The boxes in themselves are complex artworks, which taken altogether reference collectivity and inclusion.
The exhibition is organized around the themes of body, home, craft and memory, as explained in the exhibition notes. Cis and trans women’s bodies have been centered in political and moral disputes, it states, “yet they stand at the frontline of change seeking justice, safety and pleasure.” Home is the space where one rests, nurtures and creates — “it is one’s haven.” Craft is characterized by women’s uncompensated labor and traditional artmaking, “acknowledging their crucial role in safeguarding this knowledge.” And, memory is “the raw material of history, weaving together private moments, national myths and tragedies, stories, prayers and manifestos.”
Cobra Lima identified the themes as she considered the archive of works, finding, for example, the motif of women’s bodies in boxes that referenced being born, giving birth, having sex and aging. Other boxes depicted the body as it faced war, violence or disease.
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