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Semiotics of the Kitchen

 In this 1975 short film by Martha Rosler, a woman stands behind a kitchen counter and proceeds to identify a selection of cooking implements.

“I was concerned with something like the notion of language speaking the subject,’ and with the transformation of the woman herself into a sign in a system of signs that represent a system of food production, a system of harnessed subjectivity.”

-Martha Rosler

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