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The
Housewives Project
Inspired
by news of the 1st World Housewives’ Conference held in Buenos
Aires, Zwierzyñska went onto realizing the Housewives’ Project
in Santo Domingo in 1996 at the 2nd World Housewives’ Conference.
There she handed out throwaway cameras to the participants of the
conference together with a couple of assignments, among others
to photograph their hotel rooms, i.e. their temporary living rooms,
or their homes if they were local. Zwierzyñska herself chronicled
the conference and portrayed all the women and their experiences
during their week’s stay in the Caribbean. Avoiding a political
or social statement the project intended to show an intimate glance
into a housewife’s womanhood.
The efforts brought about a very personal photo-collection, which
combined together with clippings, quotes, housekeeping tips from
household magazines from the 40s, 50s and 60s and drawings, produced
a poetical image of a housewife, the housekeeper, the mother, the
wife and the homemaker. The resulting ‘dummy’ book,
directly resembles a rip-off calendar without the days, suggesting ‘time
passing’ and allowing the readers to tear out and keep their
favourite pages.
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