Off the Wall

Siglio Press’s publication of Torture of Women, created by renowned (feminist) artist Nancy Spero, who died in 2009, is the reiteration in well-designed and printed book form of her 1976 creation.

Originally a 125-foot work “juxtaposing testimony by female victims of torture with startling imagery from the ancient world,” Siglio Press has rendered it in a hundred-page tome, which includes illuminating textual embellishments such as “Fourteen Meditations of Torture of Women by Nancy Spero” by Diana Nemiroff; “Symmetries,” a story by Luisa Valenzuela; and an excerpt from The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World by Elaine Scarry.

Artist Kiki Smith writes in tribute:

Nancy