The National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C., contains a large-scale installation that was created by Austrian artist Katharina Cibulka as part of a project that focuses on feminist concepts.
A 7,000-square-foot white mesh hanging by Cibulka is now hung on the museum’s external walls. It is a piece of Cibulka’s continuing “SOLANGE” project, in which she has turned public construction sites into feminism-inspired literary displays.
The piece is embroidered with the words “As long as generations change, but our challenges remain the same, I shall be a feminist” in pink cross-stitched letters.
It is the 27th installation completed as part of Cibulka’s four-year-old project called “Solange,” which takes its name from the German word that starts each piece of text shown throughout the project’s several editions: “as long as.”
A number of other pieces from the series have been shown in France, Austria, Germany, Italy, Slovenia, and Morocco, among other countries.
Since 2021, the museum has been undergoing renovations. The museum’s “Lookout” project, which has seen the construction scaffolding atop the museum’s building converted into public art pieces, has sponsored the installation of this second public art project.
