Mira Dancy raises an everyday object to new

heights with her shower curtain for the Normann x Brask

Art Collection, inviting us to bring her lurid symbols of

female power into our most private sphere. The use of

a shower curtain as medium is not new to Dancy; her

first show at the Night Gallery in LA in 2012 featured

several oversized shower curtains, with their black lines

of paint and glitter casting shadows onto the walls of

the gallery. The idea essentially stems all the way back

to 2001, when Dancy made her very first hand-painted

shower curtain for her own shower.

“I am a firm believer in the power domestic objects play in

our daily lives. Shower curtains in particular have always

struck me as curiously intimate objects, a picture we

stand naked behind. I like the idea of an image inserting

itself into the periphery of a daily ritual, a shower being

one of the more restorative and contemplative moments

in a day.” - Mira Dancy

Dancy’s design for the Normann x Brask Art Collection

is based on her ink drawing entitled “Sun Tattoo” –

an animated depiction of a woman, cut just below the

shoulders, her head slightly tilted. The expressive

lines of the drawing meddle with the transparency of

the shower curtain, engaging the nude that potentially

stands behind it in the glance of the figure. The cascading

X’s in the woman’s braid become inadvertent censors,

while the overall rhythm of black lines provide a certain

invitation to reverie. As drops of water come running

down behind the image, they produce an animated

effect, as if her head leans away from a glass window

pounded by rain.

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