In her long - standing
photographic series Woman With A Camera, Collier highlights a certain type of film heroine, who is suddenly empowered when a camera is placed in her hands.
Beginning with her early
photographic series Women of Allah (1993 - 1997), and continuing through her current practice, Neshat has consistently and fluently probed issues of gender, power, displacement, protest, identity, and the space between the personal and the political with a singular and powerful aesthetic.
Not exact matches
Her early
photographic works include the
Women of Allah
series (1993 - 1997), which explored the question of gender in relation to Islamic fundamentalism and militancy.
Accompanying the video installation There's something I must tell you is a new
series of more than twenty
photographic portraits of
women taken over a thirty year period.
Shirin Neshat says that «in the
Women of Allah photographic series, we are confronted with threatening images of women embracing the gun, yet there is something terribly submissive, erotic and sensual about the female bodies.&r
Women of Allah
photographic series, we are confronted with threatening images of
women embracing the gun, yet there is something terribly submissive, erotic and sensual about the female bodies.&r
women embracing the gun, yet there is something terribly submissive, erotic and sensual about the female bodies.»
Accompanying the video installation is a new
series of more than twenty
photographic portraits of
women taken over a thirty year period.
Neshat's early
photographic works include the
Women of Allah
series (1993 — 1997), which explored the question of gender in relation to Islamic fundamentalism and militancy.
In the main gallery, Dávila will present a
series of large - scale
photographic cut - outs based on Roy Lichtenstein's Femme d'Alger, 1963, which was inspired by Pablo Picasso's The
Women of Algiers, 1955, which in turn was inspired by Eugène Delacroix's 1834 painting The
Women of Algiers in their Apartment.
The first
photographic series, entitled Body Remembers, comprises ten photographs which portrait, in an old - fashioned sepia style, a
woman (played by Moffatt herself) visiting an old house surrounded by ruins.
Her early works began grappling with issues of femininity and sexuality, with the black and white
series I am a
Woman (1994 - 1996) and Born with Cultural Revolution (1995) counted as some of her earlier
photographic works.
Collier's exhibition includes recent works from her ongoing
series «
Women Crying»; two text - based
photographic works based on printed materials originally used in group - therapy and self - analysis; works from her latest
series «Crying (Comic)» and «Tears (Comic)»; and a 35 mm slide projection piece «
Women With Cameras (Self Portrait)».
A leading light of the French feminist movement in art during the 1970s, Yalter built her reputation on a
series of works (chiefly in the form of drawings, videos,
photographic collages and performances) exploring the role of
women in society and the plight of migrants and refugees.
Lake's groundbreaking early work includes «A Genuine Simulation of...» (1973 — 74), a
series of
photographic self - portraits retouched with Covergirl makeup, and Miss Chatelaine (1973), a grid of black - and - white photos of the artist, each embellished with a different hat or head of hair cut from Chatelaine, a Canadian
women's magazine.
«The Portraits of 108» is Jinhyun Cha's harrowing
photographic series of surviving Korean «comfort
women,» sexual slaves to the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II.
Three black and white prints from the
photographic series «Fruitlingerie» (1998), in which
women's underwear is wrapped around fruit, are pinned to the walls, with more installed in the basement.
Her show gained increased focus and relevancy when she turned her sights on the representation of black
women in Hollywood in her new
photographic series Scenes & Take.
Her show gained increased focus and relevancy when she turned her sights on the representation of black
women in Hollywood in her new
photographic series
In her
photographic series Imagining Pontianak: I've Got Sunshine on a Cloudy Day (2016), Lann presents a contemporary portrayal of the Pontianak myth to elicit commentary on the challenges related to childbirth, sex and other social pressures that
women face daily in Southeast Asia.
The blinking slide sequence includes images drawn from Leavitt's original annotated
photographic plates of variable stars, archival images from the «Human Computers» workplace, and a
series of over 20 images of craters on the moon named after
women astronomers.
«A
series of
photographic works titled «A
Woman's Work is Never Done» Using my own hand as a base material, I considered it a canvas upon which I stitched into the top layer of skin
Filmed in her Syracuse studio, artist Carrie Mae Weems discusses the impetus for her work The Kitchen Table
Series (1990), a
photographic investigation of a single domestic space in which the artist staged scenes of «the battle around the family» between
women and men, friends and lovers, parents and children.
More touching was a
photographic series depicting gifts the artist received over 40 years, from a Gonzalez - Torres print to meatballs to The Book of Repulsive
Women (twice).
However, something quite different comes to light in Collier's richly toned and large color
photographic prints, especially in the recent «
Women Crying»
series.