Jen Greely

Jen Greely

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Laundry: Aired
2017
Women's undergarments, clothesline, clothespins
72 inches diameter
Laundry: Aired presents women's underwear through one's lifetime, as an allegory to the multiple stages and varied roles we assume as women, along with expectations of society.

Beginning with a baby diaper and ending with an (adjacent) adult diaper, vulnerability bookends life passages as told through private laundry: infancy, girlhood, womanhood, motherhood, mid-life, and retirement, before arriving at late-life and a return to potential dependency.

Brassieres through these stages invite discussion of a woman's relationship to her breasts - flaunted or hidden, and ask how, when, and why we cover and bind ourselves through our lives. From the "training" bra to the push-up bra to the utilitarian nursing bra, and from the commercial "boy short" to the thong, this is Laundry: Aired.