Thanks for the Mammaries, The Facebook Feed

Curated by Bettina Hubby
LAND (Los Angeles Nomadic Division)
October 1–November 6, 2015
Los Angeles

From the LAND announcement:

On October 1, 2015 LAND unveiled its new, larger public headquarters in Hollywood (same strip mall, new unit!) with Los Angeles-based artist Bettina Hubby’s large-scale installation, Thanks for the Mammaries, the Facebook Feed, in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

​The work chronicles the Facebook dialogue surrounding Hubby’s diagnosis of breast cancer in 2014.

What began on Facebook as a unique and smile-inducing way for Hubby to announce her own diagnosis with breast cancer and the double mastectomy that soon followed, came to fruition in the form of a singular exhibition only four months later. Thanks for the Mammaries evidences an art community at its kindest. She didn’t want pity, she wanted to laugh, and so Hubby asked for people to send her boobs, not sadness, and it worked. Every day people flowered her with images, videos and verbiage of a boob-variety unimaginable, and this helped her through, and inspired her to pay it forward. Then she sent out a call to artists to submit works for an actual exhibition and accepted all entries. The resulting array of breastishness is boggling and delightful, eerie and powerful. The work was a compilation of the more than 100 submissions she received, representative of Hubby’s inherently collaborative artistic practice that utilizes humor to strengthen community bonds.

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