Women’s perspective through toilets
Art and toilets keep walking together. More and more artists seem to choose this subject to communicate their view of society.
As mentioned here, to further promote regional artists, Liminal Gallery has announced the opening of The Cupboard, its second exhibition venue, which is an open call space for artists residing and working in Thanet. The three-month residency is chosen by Louise Fitzjohn, the founder and director of Liminal. The Toilet, an installation by its first artist Jemima Sara, will make its debut there.
Jemima Sara is a multidisciplinary artist that blends identity, freedom of expression, and the flow of daily life into her work. Her practice began as a craft business where she made everything from custom silk scarves to T-shirts. Since then, it has grown to encompass drawings, installations, sculptures, prints, and paintings. She reflects on and explores the difficulties of everyday life in her art, using this to spark discussions as a type of self-therapy or so-called catharsis.
She enjoys producing site-specific interactive artworks, from installations to events, for museums and other public places. She aspires to improve people’s lives through her practice by upholding the concepts of involvement and accessibility.
Commercial clients including Anthropologie, Terry De Havilland, Wolf and Badger, and others have benefited from her creative production. Along with frequently appearing in magazines including Stir World, FAD Art, The Evening Standard, GQ, and Marie Claire, to name a few.
“The Toilet is a miniature installation that explores the main themes in my work”. Women’s art perhaps belongs in the toilet, where it would at least receive more attention, she said.
The concept of “The Toilet” encompasses a space of safety, reflection, expression, privacy, breach of privacy, puppetry, and everyday life. The “toilet” scenario is exposed like a dollhouse, encouraging the audience to cross and play with the conventional borders of privacy, personal autonomy, and manipulation. In light of her experience in puppetry, she investigates the tradition of the sculptor Marisol Escobar. As though societal pressures and unseen forces are in control of us.
she wants to make something that makes use of the toilet because it’s a universal experience and a symbol of the everyday. While stressing the existing perception of public restrooms as being weak, inconvenient, and dangerous locations.
The primary concerns of her activity are examined in this little installation, including feminism, text, accessibility, slogans, freedom of expression, daily life, and boundaries, and liminality.
Jemima Sara has built “The Toilet” within Liminal Gallery’s new exhibition space “The Cupboard” in response to her recent work using toilets in her practice as a symbol for accessibility, health, and emphasizing the significance of having accessible spaces to feel safe.
