Photo by Jason Mandella

Objects With No Titles
1973/2018

Installation with soft sculptures and objects

Rosler’s “soft sculptures” were originally displayed in 1973. The piece is a commentary on the rigid standards of beauty for women, as seen in advertisements of the 1960s and 70s. “The outcome is still a kind of internalized masochism of constantly judging yourself as being inferior, which I think was pretty much — and may still be… — the state of women, particularly young women — that you never, never reach the ideal state that you imagine for yourself, which is confected out of information you get from elsewhere,” said Rosler in an interview.