ALEXANDRA JACOBY
Visual Artist
Exhibited:
vagina vérité™—an unabashed exploration of the plain, ordinary, mysterious matter of vaginas.
On participating in Vagina Festival 2007:
There's nothing I like better than conversation. Yet, time for conversation is rarely booked into my busy schedule. I think that's true for many of us.
Vagina Festival is an opportunity to spend time together, experiencing each other's art, performances and passions, and listening to each other's stories. As a visual artist, my work is predominantly solitary, and that can be a comfortable space—from which I sometimes need a push. I welcome the opportunity to embrace uncomfortable and painful conversations within a context of support and celebration, and to envision a hopeful future. I thank everyone participating in Vagina Festival for making these conversations possible.
About Alexandra Jacoby:
Alexandra Jacoby is an artist-activist. Since Sept. 2000, her primary focus has been making vagina portraits*, documentary-style close-ups, revealing the elusive faces of the vaginas—each strikingly unique. Jacoby is up to 67 v-portraits so far and looks forward to publishing them in a book, vagina vérité™. So women can see ourselves for ourselves.
Contact: alexandra@vaginafestival.com
Websites: www.vaginaverite.com, www.leavethecastle.com
* The v-portraits are in fact vulva portraits. The project began when a friend of mine asked me whether I liked the way my vagina looked. vagina vérité™ is my response to my friend [who didn't like hers].
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VAGINA FESTIVAL 2007
took place on FEB. 16-18
at
AGNI GALLERY, NYC
Proceeds were donated to V-Day. We were honored to present two performances of The Vagina Monologues.
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VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN >
At least one out of every three women around the world has been beaten, coerced into sex, or otherwise abused in her lifetime — with the abuser usually someone known to her. Violence against women and girls is a universal problem of epidemic proportions.
V-Day's 2007 theme Reclaiming Peace seeks to make the connection between the worldwide anti-violence work of V-Day activists with our collective desire for peace and an end to armed conflicts. "We are saying that if a government supports the use of force, weapons, violence as a method of control and dominance, this models and gives license to the same kind of behavior at home," stated V-Day Founder/Artistic Director Eve Ensler.
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