Nobody’s Free Until Everybody’s Free
Lauren McLaughlin
Nobody’s Free Until Everybody’s Free
Lauren McLaughlin
Reference
SAS0149_003
Year
2019
Dimensions (cm)
Height: 13
Length: 60
Depth: 8
Length: 60
Depth: 8
Materials
Neon, programmer, transformers, wire and plexiglass.
Current Location
Edinburgh
Suitable Locations for the Work
- Indoors
- Wall-mounted
Background, history, commissioner of the work
This work was produced in 2019 in collaboration with Neon Workshops ltd. The work was funded with a Creative Scotland Open Fund Grant.
Thematic/contextual information
Produced in blown glass, only the two inner words ‘power’ and ‘men’ are filled with gas and programmed to flash on and off in a continuous loop, the full word ‘empowerment’ never being fully lit. Adopting Fannie Lou Hamer’s words as the title, this work aims to address the persistency of white supremacy and white male patriarchal oppression, and calls attention to the progress still to be made in the fight for equality.
