Still.Life.
THE EXHIBITION
The Women in White
The Women in White
Still.Life. was created for the Listening Through Time and Space: An Interactive Oral History Exhibit at Columbia University.
In many of photographs from 1920s and 1930s Trinidad & Tobago, the women appear to be wearing white.
The market was a space where women would come to buy food for the family, and to sell their goods. For the domestic workers in the upperclass houses, this was the first stop early in the morning to buy the food for the employers households.
The exhibit is an interpretation of the scene of the market, an homage to the women of this time - The Women in White.
These dresses are hand sewn the way they would have been then, and are made from the same fabrics available at that time. They were recreated from photographs of the narrators you will hear today, and from photography from the 1920s and 1930s.
Visitors were invited to interact with the dresses and visit the Listening Stations to hear the stories of THREE the women: Silla, Chucklan and Marcia.