Handmaid's Tale Kids / Indigenous the rose and the lotus

the rose and the lotus

since the 1970s

Even though sixteen years have passed

each piece is explored as a work of art in its own right

Carsten Holler

Handmaid's Tale Kids / Indigenous the rose and the lotusOffred is a Handmaid in The Republic of Gilead, a religious totalitarian state in what was formerly known as the United States. She is placed in the household of The Commander, Fred Waterford her assigned name, Offred, means 'of Fred'. She has only one function: to breed. If Offred refuses to enter into sexual servitude to repopulate a devastated world, she will be hanged. Yet even a repressive state cannot eradicate hope and desire. As she recalls