Martha Rosler is a pioneer for feminism and an American artist born in 1943. One of her earliest notable works of feminism “Semiotics in the Kitchen,” challenges past and contemporary social dynamics with a dark humor to open the eyes into the women experience. The exploration of feminism, media and war in Martha Rosler’s artworks become a part of a new found modern women. Her practice through her writings about arts and culture take form through many mediums, such as photography, photo text, video, instillation, sculpture, and performance. A quick observation of Rosler’s work is that it is centered heavily on the public spear of every day life.
Rosler subverted the domesticity in the kitchen through her performance, Semiotics of the Kitchen.
