Change My Problem is a Problem of a Woman

Ewa Partums work entitled Change My problem is a problem of a woman 1979 is the culmination and the turning point of a process which began with Change in 1974 The latter was an action in which the artist had half of her face aged using makeup and immortalized in a portrait posted in the streets of Warsaw Up to that point Partum had used makeup to glamorize herself signing various words with her lips outlined in red and pressed against paper as she spoke 1 But in Change My problem is a problem of a woman Partum had wrinkles varicose veins and grey hair applied over half of her body while reclining on a white podium she recited passages from the critic Lucy Lippard and the artist VALIE EXPORT