In 1972, artist Sandra Orgel debuted this striking feminist sculpture, a claustrophobic commentary on the domestic expectations placed upon women. In it, a nude female mannequin lies trapped within a linen closet, “ossified between the drawers”, in the words of Philomena Epps in an archive feature for Elephant, looking at the symbolic relationship between the female form and household objects in art. Orgel’s artwork, Epps notes, had the desired effect; as Orgel herself would later recount, “One woman visitor to my room commented, ‘This is exactly where women have always been—in between the sheets and on the shelf’.” Read the full feature here.
