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DRAWN IN SMOKE Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Centenary

DRAWN IN SMOKE (#52)
DRAWN IN SMOKE (#52)

smoke/soot on rag paper

DRAWN IN SMOKE Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Centenary | Media List


Statement

MARCH 25 2011 marks the centenary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, one of the most infamous and deadly disasters of the American Industrial Revolution. Records indicate that 146 garment workers, most young immigrant women, perished in the flames or jumped to their deaths from the New York City sweatshop.

HARRIET BART'S installation, DRAWN IN SMOKE Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Centenary, revisits this historic event through a series of 160 elegiac drawings composed from smoke and soot. From these wispy and ethereal images emerge the inscribed names of those who died in the fire, filling the room with imagined/imaged smoke and the memory of those who perished. The lives of working class women during the first half of the 20th century has long been a source of inspiration and meaning in Bart's work, and related installations will accompany the exhibition, inviting visitors to re-examine the complexity, scope and aftermath of this particular tragedy as they experience the installation in the present.