LINEAGE

LINEAGE

Julia Kristeva’s essay ‘Women’s Time’ sets out to explore the way in which the feminist movement both ‘inherits and modifies’ a certain conception of time¹.

The common idea of time is linear like history and language, masculine, phallocentric, progressive and sequential.

Cropped and taken out of context these strips of information are artistic capsules of information about lives and family lineages long past and forgotten; this double-plate photogravure print cherishes and celebrates these past artefacts and preserves them permanently for following generations.