About
Charlie Dov Schön (b. Boston, MA 2000) is a textile and found object artist living and working in Somerville, MA. Her practice is deeply interdisciplinary, dealing with textiles, transparencies, ritual, and grief. She is interested in spiritual objects operating as data collectors and scientific practice operating as prayer.
“Charlie Dov Schön’s hanging amulets made out of felt and birth control medications...pack a punch. Their forms mimic Jewish devotional objects used to shield pregnant people and young children from the vengeful Lilith who was, in rabbinic literature, framed as a seducer, a slayer of babies, and a woman who refused to be subservient to her husband, Adam. In other words, a woman who demanded control of her sexuality, her uterus, and her life. A revisionist feminist interpretation of this religious history, Dov Schön’s talismans protect a person’s bodily autonomy in a post-Roe world.”
-Michelle Millar Fisher, Curator of Contemporary Decorative Arts at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston