A pun on male art/mail art, the ironic title of this series of photographs which were distributed via the mail, is also a veiled, somewhat wistful, allusion to feminism. While the women’s liberation movement was strong in the western world in the late ‘70s, in Poland at that time the empowerment of women seemed more a dream than a reality. That said, unlike some women artists I knew who were trying to connect with the international feminist art, I didn’t aspire to be a hard-core fighter for the cause. My mail art project incorporated the rubber-stamped words “Women’s Art” and and another stamp, in the shape of a ship.  Assuming different female personae, in some of these pictures I am wearing a typical worker’s uniform. In others I am projecting a more sensual, feminine attitude.

Presentation of “Sztuka Kobiet” postcards, Miastko 1981

Presentation of “Sztuka Kobiet” postcards, Miastko 1981