Airco Caravan

Airco Caravan

Nasty Women is a worldwide movement that started in 2016 in New York when Trump was elected president. He called Hillary Clinton a ‘nasty woman’ and a group of feminist artists organized a huge exhibition with this name, claiming female power. Many cities in the US and Europe followed. Caravan founded Nasty Women Amsterdam and curated two fundraiser exhibitions in 2017 and 2019. Helen Roeten (Alkmaar/Amsterdam) and Paige Megan (London) continue the fight against misogyny, which in 2025 is more urgent than ever. 

Feminist ‘artivist' Airco Caravan lives and works in New York. 

The first thing she bought when moving from Amsterdam to New York in 2022 was a spray can of Raid pesticide to get rid of the cockroaches. Unpleasant but very effective. This sparked the idea of a new body of work. Wouldn’t it be nice if we could spray away all nasty things in our society, like misogyny, rape, racism, LGBTQIA+-hate, and war? So she created a growing collection of over 400 spray cans and bottles for a better world. Bold, humorous, and colorful. 

The spray cans and bottles are designed digitally and executed in various mediums, small and large: solid cast resin transparent spray bottles, laser-cut plexiglass with gemstones, labeled spray cans and bottles, prints on silk, and printed and woven wall tapestries. 

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HONEY, IF MEN COULD GET PREGNANT, ABORTION WOULD BE A SACRAMENT

(Gloria Steinem, 1971)

Deze quote staat ook op 1 van de zijden prints, op potjes honing. 

Of: 

BANS OFF OUR BODIES!

Of 

SMASH THE PATRIARCHY

Work in exhibition:

Airco Caravan

Smash The Patriarchy

four-part, prints on silk,

140x140cm/55x55", 66x66cm/26x26" each, 2024

€1500 or €450 each

AircoCaravan

HELL NO

cut-out machine-woven wall tapestry, sequins, pompoms, trim,

94x36cm/37x14", 2025

€1600