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Currently on view at Mint Museum--UPTOWN
Museum Purchase: Funds provided by the Mint Museum of Craft + Design Collections Board and the Charles W. Beam Accessions Endowment
In this sculptural installation, Silvia Levenson addresses the contrast between the romantic ideal of marriage and the reality of domestic violence that threatens many women. A translucent, hollow glass cake, decorated with delicate scrollwork, is topped by a plaster hand grenade—a metaphor for the fragility of relationships and the fear that one’s partner could explode at the slightest provocation. As Levenson states, “The family is often equated with sanctuary…But the evidence shows that it is also a place that imperils lives…One third of murdered women in the world are killed by husband or partner.” Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Levenson emigrated to Italy in 1981 with her husband and young children to escape the oppressive regime of military dictator Jorge Rafaél Videla (ruled 1976–1981), during which members of her family “disappeared.” Her experiences during this intense and frightening time continue to inform her work. Today she divides her time between Buenos Aires and Lesa, Italy
Accession Number: 2018.64
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