An exhibit taking place right now in a Massachusetts museum draws on worker safety tragedies of the past and present and focuses attention on our relationship with the people who make the clothes we wear – especially those in third world countries.
Created by artist Rachel Breen and poet Alison Morse, The Price of Our Clothes is a “material meditation on garment factory disasters,” according to the Perlman Teaching Museum, Braucher Gallery, which is hosting it. The exhibition includes mixed-media artwork that is sewn, painted, stitched on and/or punctured with a sewing machine, powerful sound pieces, poems, and performances.