Mika Rottenberg "Dough"

I found this exhibition by seeing where the fine art faculty at Columbia were showing and discovered a fantastic district in Chelsea where there is a whole street full of galleries. I only managed a few but there was some fantastic work by women artists. Mika Rottenberg was one of the best shows I have seen for a while. It was a video installation with drawings. Time Out did a good review of the work:"The video set in a claustrophobically small, distinctly low-tech dough-packaging factory, where decorative touches-bunches of flowers,piles of towels,spray bottles-also suggest a beauty salon." The dough is massaged,stretched and pulled by the women factory workers in the process of production until it is finally vaccumed sealed and packaged. The whole process evoking aspects of capitalist bodily commodifiaction and exploitation. Brilliant work.