
Winnie Herbstein
Though “women’s work” is often used to describe the domestic sphere within a house in which the family unit is produced and maintained—both cosmetically and hygienically—Winnie Herbstein’s latest exhibition, “Brace,” chronicles an instance where women’s work was to build the house itself. Minutes, 2019, a new film by Herbstein complements The House That Jill Built, 1998, a documentary produced by Video Information Project (Magda Ang, Karen Dickson, and Helen Archer) about Glasgow’s distaff self-build collective Take Root. Also included is a supportive steel structure made by Herbstein and members