Not exact matches
A Room of One's Own, clearly a nod to Virginia Woolf, shows videos and photographs depicting
women melding into their surroundings or using their
bodies as
architecture — as seen in the works of Francesca Woodman and Zanele Muholi.
The exhibition had been planned shortly before her death and came about after the Serpentine's artistic director, Hans Ulrich Obrist, attended her RIBA lecture in February marking the award of the
architecture body's gold medal, the first time it has been presented to a
woman.
By combining residential
architecture and the curvaceous female
body, Bourgeois portrays a
woman who is obscured and entrapped by the domestic realm that she simultaneously supports.