Recompense

This is a new series of limited edition prints by Ivy Guild that explore art-world consumerism, copies or records of artworks, the research of Silvia Federici in regard to women’s unpaid reproductive labor in the household, the gender-based wage gap, sex-based discrimination in the employment process, and the site-specificity of selling work in a vending machine. The targeted message of the work confronts the longstanding sexism and discrimination that Capitalism and patriarchal structures profit from. The physical delivery of the work subverts the normal consumer nature of a typical exchange associated with a vending machine. Instead of purchasing a traditional consumer product, the buyer is actually purchasing a proposed invoice of payment or recompense to be given to an individual as a victim of the antiquated, exploitative infrastructure that has been imposed upon them. The prints were made on two-part receipt paper and Guild has separated the yellow or secondary print of each work to keep as a record of the exchange.

Ivy Guild’s ongoing research investigates materiality, intimacy, the uncanny, and the abject through contemporary women’s issues, the body, and domesticity.

Ivy Guild, a Los Angeles based artist, is a first-year MFA in the Studio Art program at the University of California, Irvine, and graduated from the University of San Diego in 2016 with a dual-degree in Visual Arts and Art History. She works in sculpture, photography, film, performance, and installation. Her ongoing research investigates materiality, intimacy, the uncanny, and the abject through contemporary women’s issues, the body, and domesticity.