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Fertile Grounds 3
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Fertile Grounds 3

Fertile Grounds 3

Artist

Borinquen Gallo

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Description

This series of wearable sculptures reflect on and celebrate the Woman's body as creator and bearer of life, and the divine generative power of her body that enables her to create other human beings. The sequence of poncho-like weavings map my body’s metamorphosis in its various phases of transformation. The sagging, elongated breast points to the body changes that stretches our bodies to extremes as we become shelter and nurturers.

The pieces reflect on the dual contradictory aspects of birthing and motherhood at once celebrating the power of fertility and childbirth and reflecting on current related struggles.

The juxtaposition of caution tape and live plants points to the tension between nature and artifice, spirituality and reproductive technology industry. The caution literally warns us against the effects of pollution and plastic consumption disrupting our body's hormonal balances and its effects on the current rise of (un)fertility; as well as cautioning us and raising a flag about the alarming fact that Black women still have the highest maternal mortality rates in the United States.
Medium

Debris Netting, caution tape and live plants Variable dimensions

Dimensions
Shipping & Production Time

Each piece in our collection is crafted individually with care and intention. Because we focus on ethical, sustainable production, items are made-to-order or in very limited quantities.

Please allow 7–14 business days for production before shipping.

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About the Maker

Meet Borinquen Gallo

Borinquen Gallo is an Italian-Puerto Rican Bronx-based artist whose work delves into themes of beauty, community, socio-cultural systems and structures through sculpture and installations made using a range of repurposed materials.

Gallo received her BFA in Painting and Sculpture from the Cooper Union for The Advancement of Science and Art, and her MFA in Painting from Hunter College.

She has received numerous awards including the Sol Shaviro Award (2015), The Marion Netter Fellowship (2010), and the Doris Liebowitz Art Educator Award (2009). Residencies include The Children Museum of Manhattan (2019), The Bronx Museum of the Arts AIM Program (2015), the Vermont Studio Center (2013) and The Cooper Union Artist Residency (2011).

Gallo has exhibited at Burning in Water Gallery, BRIC Arts Media, Smack Mellon, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Wave Hill Sunroom Project Space, The National Academy Museum, the Queens Museum, Columbia University, The Cooper Union and Queens College. In addition, she has worked on curatorial projects with BAM Fischer, and Pratt Institute. She is currently Adjunct Associate Professor of Art and Design Education at Pratt Institute in New York.

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