RAPUNZEL PROJECT a modern re-telling of the famous folk tale
RECLAIMING RAPUNZEL (The Rapunzel Project)
Rescued textiles, yarn, rope
15 feet long
2016
RECLAIMING RAPUNZEL (The Rapunzel Project) was a temporary collaborative installation combined with a modern re-telling of the famous folk tale. The installation, a 15-foot long, five-stranded golden braid hanging from the second-story window to the ground floor, was constructed at the MarinMOCA building in February of 2016 by over 25 participants. Materials were purchased from Scrap, a nonprofit creative reuse center in San Francisco.
Before the Brothers Grimm, there was Percinette, told in 1698 by Charlotte-Rose de Caumont de la Force, a strong-willed and fiercely independent woman who was banished to a convent after displeasing Louis XIV. Locked away in a cloister, much like Rapunzel is in her tower, Charlotte-Rose was among the first writers to pen a collection of literary fairy tales and one of the world’s first historical novelists. Her stories were among the first literary fairy tales to be published, and many attribute her with beginning the historical fiction genre.
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