CLIENT: Cranbrook Art Museum

Spoons? Heads? After Perestroika: Kitchenmaids or Stateswomen poster and invitation were designed for an exhibit of the same name that examined the rise of a feminist consciousness in Russia.

Many of the artworks in the show were based on theories of deconstruction. This image also deconstructs/reconstructs El Lissitzky's famous Constructivist poster for the Exhibition of Soviet Art (1929). It offers an alternative read on Russian art by juxtaposing images: a banal image of spoons is superimposed on the original poster to represent both the communal kitchen and the physiology of women.