Too Many Irons in the Fire

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^{︎ A BOOK ACT 2 - group show @ Karin Weber Gallery, HK 2023 ︎}

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Too many irons in the fire}
^{ink on fabric, cotton stuffing,

thread, iron board}

In Too Many Irons in the Fire, the mother/wife is conspicuously absent, replaced instead by fragmented photographs of women’s bodies printed on fabric and transformed into an A–Z flashcard children’s book‑blanket, resting on an ironing board. The work brings together the domestic act of ironing—symbolic of diligent, hardworking women—with imagery often deemed obscene or inappropriate: naked female bodies. Sourced from vintage local pornographic magazines from the early 1990s, these images are intentionally cropped to focus on the body without the head, emphasizing form over individuality. Each image is paired with a different word, inviting ambiguity and tending toward negative connotations when associated with the feminized body.

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A: Animal

B: Betrayal

C: Curse

D: Debauchery

E: Excess

F: Fat

G: Greed

H: Homicidal

I: Incest

J: Jealousy

K: Kitchen

L: Low

M: Monster

N: Naive

O: Obscene

P: Punishment

Q: Quantity

R: Reproduction

S: Sinner

T: Trouble

U: Unclean

V: Victim

W: Weak

X: Xenophobic

Y: Yield

Z: Zombie

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[Too Many Irons in the Fire]

^{[Too Many Irons in the Fire]}