A collaborative installation for the Juried Exhibition ‘Women’s Tools’,,Washington Women’s Art Center, Washington, DC.

HERS: Inside/Outside (1981–1994, collaborative installation with Menucha)

HERS: Inside/Outside is an interactive, mixed-media installation developed over multiple iterations between 1981 and 1994. The work creates an immersive, womb-like interior space that viewers physically enter, shifting the experience of the artwork from observation to participation.

In its later form, presented at the University of Maryland under the sponsorship of PANDORA (Women Collaborating in Arts and Letters), the installation incorporated a 50-minute audio component featuring the voices of women across generations and cultural backgrounds. Visitors were invited to remove their shoes, enter the space, sit within a central “throne,” and record their own reflections—transforming the work into a site of collective expression.

The installation addresses the tension between internal identity and external societal roles, particularly as they shape women’s lived experience. Drawing from feminist discourse and research into prehistoric goddess cultures, the work situates the female body as both symbolic and political terrain.

Documented through press materials, exhibition texts, and installation photography, HERS represents an early and sustained investigation into participation, embodiment, and the social construction of identity—concerns that continue to inform my current practice.