Trappings: Portraits
Portland International Airport, Portland, OR. April - October 2011

Trappings: Portraits is a new exhibition (a version of which originally launched at MIA) that reveals the process Two Girls Working developed to reconnect with participants when they wrote their book (Trappings: Stories of Women, Power and Clothing) taking additional photographs and asking the women to expand on their original responses to the question what do you wear that makes you feel powerful?

The photographs on the pedestal are portraits and video stills taken at the interview sessions. The portraits on the wall are from the follow up meetings. The texts and audio works are excerpts from the women’s interviews. The audio works are presented on the airport’s telephone system. A ten-minute video is presented as a QR code seen on airport passenger’s smart phones.

Seven women are presented in this installation: Clara Lee Arnold, Debra Carrion, Megan Jones, Lorraine O’Grady, Stephanie Rivera, Erika Soveranes, and Mary Turner Lane.

To read the installation text click here.