Now We Stand in a Crowded Gap

The artist group Spiral Threads created a large-scale wall piece for the exhibition Monica Ross: Ghost in The Spinning Mill at HALLE 14, Leipzig (shown from 16 November to 18 December 2022). Entitled Now We Stand in a Crowded Gap, this work links to British artist Monica Ross’ speech History or Not, which recounts the activism and art of feminists in 1970s Britain. Drawing on their collaborations and alliances, Ross criticised the exclusion of feminist works from a survey exhibition of conceptual art in her March 2000 speech. She marks the lack of consideration and inscription of feminist art in art history, the attribution of the domestic and craft spheres, and echoes the activities and achievements of the feminist liberation movement.

The artists group Spiral Threads (Hanako Emden, Sophie Florian, Anja Kaiser) follows the narratives and demands of Ross and her contemporaries and spins additional narrative threads to them.