Right of Blood, Left of the Earth
Gabrielle Printz (MArch ’14)
Photo Credit: Martin Aryroglo
Gabrielle Printz is a co-founder of feminist architecture collaborative, an architectural research office that produces critical work around the design of the body, nationality, and labor. She also serves as adjunct assistant professor at the Columbia University GSAPP. A winner of the 2019 Architectural League Prize, f-architecture has exhibited work internationally and published widely on architecture and its seemingly extraneous logics (gendered, political, capitalist). Gabrielle is pursuing a PhD in Architectural History and Theory at Yale University. She holds an MS.CCCP from Columbia University, a MArch from the University at Buffalo, and a BA from Canisius College.
One of two flags commissioned for Al-Majhoola Min al-Ard at the Biennale d’Architecture d’Orléans. The printed image is captured from a live staging of bodies and objects, which animate the gendered construction of citizenship in states across the Middle East and North Africa through paternal jus sanguinis (right of blood). Outstretched arms grasp the material artifacts that both affirm and limit women’s place vis-a-vis the nation (documents, heirlooms or biomaterial). Flown along the Rue Jeanne d’Arc, the flags abandon their symbolic duty to assert corporeal representation on the street.
Project Credits: feminist architecture collaborative (Gabrielle Printz, Rosana Elkhatib, Virginia Black); Commissioned by the FRAC Centre Val-de-Loire for the second edition of the Architecture Biennial of Orléans, France
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