Synopsis
A HAUNTING, BEAUTIFUL STUDY OF ART, POP, FEMININITY, AND FEMINISM
Before blogs, there were zines. Before zines, there were scrapbooks. Sometimes overlooked in the quest to produce high culture, these most direct and intimate means of communication and recording memory are the tools favored by Sonja Ahlers in the making of her art. A self-taught artist and writer, Ahlers wears her...
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08 June 2010
9781770460102Reviews
“Sonja Ahlers' meditations on childhood, pop culture and feminine power are beyond entertaining. Entering the alternate reality she has created in The Selves, I found myself standing somewhere seductive, familiar and very funny.” —Kathleen Hanna (Musician, Bikini Kill and Le Tigre)
“Sonja Ahlers's work is violently frangible, disheveled sophistication; cruelly sentimental and sweetly cold. This violent femme is everything, everything, everything.” —LYNN CROSBIE, author of Pearl and Liar on Sonja Ahlers
“Ahlers's interests revolve around the connections between art, craft, and architecture, as mediated by the personal histories of selected women artists.” —The Georgia Straight on Sonja Ahlers
