POSTAGE GIRLS

Digital print on textile Size 21cm x 15cm, 8 elements Inspired by Enid Marx’s designs for Royal Mail stamps, Albino’s work celebrates the prominent female designers featured in our ‘Poster Girls’ exhibition. The designer’s own blurred portrait is an acknowledgment of how difficult it was to find photographs of these women. (text for London Transport Museum, June-September 2018, curated by Sarah Campbell) Since any inequality starts from a lacking or wrong representation (in this case women as graphic designers throughout the official design history), my project aims to focus on the difficulty of having visual documents of the women that were celebrated in the exhibition of ‘I don’t know her name, but I know her work’ (15-25 April 2017, Csm Museum and Study Collection window gallery). The level of each woman’s image distortion is based on the difficulty I had on finding pictures of them online and offline. The work has been chosen to be part of The CSM Museum & Study Collection permanent archive and has been exhibited in the London Transport Museum as part of the Poster Girls Parade 'Exploring Equality' exhibition (15 June- 18 October 2018)