As time passes, memory becomes diluted. Art histories’ memory seems to have more thoroughly and more quickly diluted the names of its female contributors. Many of the women involved in the arts have, thus, become large unknowns not only to the wider audience but to scholars, artists and historians.
Their trajectories have been slowly dusted off our memories book shelf, and they have awoken our interest. As women from the past come back to us through research and archival investigation, our duty is to revise their work, become acquainted with it, exhibit it, make anthologies and retrospectives of it. To rewrite our histories, we must look for the stories of these women, we must retell them and weave them into our memory.
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