Christopher Alessandrini
Christopher Alessandrini is a writer based in New York, where he works in the Digital Department at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Burge’s investigations range from women’s underacknowledged contributions to textile manufacturing to their involvement in the early days of computing and scientific observation. The result is a highly cerebral and elegant body of work that poses urgent questions about labor, visibility, and the social assignment of value.
When Walter Gropius published the Bauhaus manifesto in 1919, his ambition was to level the enervated hierarchies of Western art.