Object Details
Maker
Batoul S'Himi, born 1974, Morocco
Label Text
Batoul S’Himi has converted cookware into an ambassador that can roam the globe and assert a place for women in it. She describes how “travel [and] the internet forced me to look at the world and draw on my daily life.” At once quirky and eloquent, her sculpture takes the most domestic and local of spaces—the kitchen or hearth—and situates it within a global picture. S’Himi’s selection of a pressure cooker draws attention to the underwhelming representation of women and women’s issues on a global level, while also slyly alluding to the mounting pressure to change this.
Description
Enameled red aluminum pressure cooker from which a map of the world has been cut.
Exhibition History
Pavilion: A New Look, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., October 9, 2019–ongoing (installed April 5, 2022)
I Am: Contemporary African Women Artists, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., June 20, 2019 - April 3, 2022
Cultural Expression, National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., September 24, 2016-September 28, 2018
Earth Matters: Land as Material and Metaphor in the Arts of Africa, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., April 22, 2013-February 23, 2014; Fowler Museum at UCLA, University of California, Los Angeles, April 19-September 14, 2014; Bowdoin College Museum of Art, October 15, 2015-March 9, 2016
Published References
Milbourne, Karen E. 2013. Earth Matters: Land as Material and Metaphor in the Arts of Africa. New York: The Monacelli Press; Washington, D.C.: National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, pp. 177-178, no. 149.
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Credit Line
Museum purchase
Date
2011
Object number
2014-15-1
Restrictions & Rights
Usage conditions apply
Copyright
© 2011 Batoul S'Himi
Type
Sculpture
Medium
Aluminum
Dimensions
H x D: 27.9 x 29.2 cm (11 x 11 1/2 in.)
Geography
Morocco
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Data Source
National Museum of African Art
Link to Original Record
Record ID
nmafa_2014-15-1