IN ORDER TO JOIN - POLITICAL IN A HISTORICAL MOMENT 8 December 2013 - 16 March 2014 Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany
Artists: Helen Chadwick, Chohreh Feyzdjou, Angela Grauerholz, Sheela Gowda, Jamelie Hassan, Mona Hatoum, Rummana Hussain, Shelagh Keeley, Astrid Klein, Ana Mendieta, Pushpamala N., Adrian Piper, Lala Rukh, and Rosemarie Trockel
Curated by Swapnaa Tamhane and Susanne Titz
This group exhibition brings together artists born between 1947 and 1957. This bracket of time has been intentionally selected to study work made by women artists born in the postwar, post-Partition era who engage with a political framework that addresses concepts of nationalism, institutions, and questions of their own positions by creating complex interpretations. These artists have practices that enter and depart from dialogues with but are not positioned within Western canonical frames such as Modernism, Abstract Expressionism, Minimalism, Pop, Performance Art, or the even the Feminist movement of the 1970s; they are the “in-between”, sitting alongside but very much present. This ‘instability’ is due to the nature of their work, choice of media and the concerns that have run through their practice; there is a dominance of conceptual strategy and thinking, and ultimately, they are both working with and against the possibility of ‘joining’.
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