Threads of Kinship: Sisters Doing it for Themselves

Threads of Kinship: Sisters Doing it for Themselves

Was China’s community of Self-Comb Sisters a radical act of feminism? Featuring mostly Asian artists, Threads of Kinship weaves a tangled web of colonial commerce, migration, utopianism and female resistance. These grand themes unspool across the region like long geo-economic strands from a conceptual chrysalis: a sisterhood that emerged from the nineteenth-century silk industry in the Pearl River Delta in southern China. The exhibit’s curatoria…