Feminist artist Linda Stein has created two innovative projects related to women and the Holocaust
Linda Stein, Spoon to Shell, 2015–2017. Installation with mixed media, spoons, shells, fourteen boxes, 11 × 14 × 2 in each (27.94 × 35.56 × 5.08 cm), full installation 43 × 90 × 2 in (109.22 × 228.6 × 5.08 cm). Collection of the artist, USA.
Feminist artist Linda Stein, based in New York City, has created two innovative projects related to women and the Holocaust.
Stein’s series of fabric panels about women during the time of the Holocaust honors heroines, and her Spoon to Shell boxes focus on how a spoon could mean the difference between life and death in a concentration camp.
Both of these artistic representations are a tribute to women’s special strengths and tribulations. Stein attributes her inspiration for Spoon to Shell to the book Sexual Violence against Jewish Women during the Holocaust, edited by Sonja M. Hedgepeth and Rochelle G. Saidel. Spoon to Shell was shown at Remember the Women Institute’s VIOLATED! Women in Holocaust and Genocide group exhibition in 2018. See more information about Stein’s exhibitions and work at Have Art Will Travel.
