Gallery Visit
The photographers gallery exhibited an exsive work that drew from 48 international artists and their works. Contributing to the feminist art movement of the 1970s their works offered poetic, ironic and often provocative perspectives that challenged ideas at the time about gender in society. These feminists used their art pieces as cultural and political tools that would confront patriarchy and sexist stereotypes of gender roles at the time. They would utulise new modes of expression and often used their own bodies as central to their motifs in their art.
Images in the gallery would discuss the realms of politics not only in public but also in the private realms of society, they discussed and explored ideas about sexuality, identity, gender roles in both public and domestic spaces. The Photographers Gallery had gathered over two hundered works by these artists into four chapters ‘The Seductive Body’, ‘Domestic Agenda’, ‘In My Skin’ and ‘Alter Ego’. This curating choice hence highlighted each chapterin how they each subjected themselves to these challenges in society and the art world. It also highlights the role the woman artists played through their radical practices and how thier subjects are a continuing relevance and influence in modern day politics, social conduct and the art world.