'Large-scale Feminist public art installation' at the National Museum of Women in the Arts
1250 New York Ave, NW. “Katharina Cibulka, SOLANGE #27 , 2022; Mesh scaffolding net, tulle, and cable ties, 82 x 82 ft. ; © 2022 Katharina Cibulka; Photo by Kevin Allen”“Austrian artist Katharina Cibulka was commissioned to create a monumental site-specific public artwork for DC — her first in the US and her largest to date.
Reflecting local submissions, the artist created a work that addressed the continual generational nature of struggle for feminist and human rights: AS LONG AS GENERATIONS CHANGE BUT OUR STRUGGLES STAY THE SAME, I WILL BE A FEMINIST. A pointedly feminist statement in the center of the nation’s capital is timely on many levels — from the repeal of Roe in the US to the largely female-led uprising in Iran..