How Women Are
dal 22/1/2008 al 22/2/2008
Segnalato da
22/1/2008
How Women Are
Sartorial Contemporary Art, London
Ann-Caroline Breig, Louise Camrass, Rose Gibbs. The three women subvert traditionally feminine practices such as watercolour, sewing, and pottery.
For the New Year and running through Valentine's Day 2008 (the day of flowers and chocolates sent out of obligation to her indoors or the girlfriend, or daringly to some girl he fancies) we proudly present a show of three women who turn the tables and return the gifts, with interest. You can take your cheap gnarled up little roses and hastily chosen sickly chocolates and stuff them up your arses. We won't be wooed with objects, because next you'll want us to be objects. We make our own objects which object to your objectification of us, amongst other things.
For the purposes of this show it matters that these three are women. Our thesis is that they have reacted against their sexist environments, their brutish boyfriends, their fathers, their mothers, their families, their doctors, their teachers etc, and boldly struck out on a path of expression, liberation, and art.
How Women Are shows that women aren't what you think (sometimes they are men, as in Camrass's films of transvestites). The three women subvert traditionally feminine practices such as watercolour, sewing, and pottery. Why choose these delicate methods? Because with the feather we can tickle the feet of the 1000 pound gorilla in the room (sexism) and perhaps get him to f*ck off.
Who:
Ann-Caroline Breig sews large paintings of women, relationships, and the clamouring world with a patchwork of things she finds such as advertising signs and fruit boxes. Has shown recently with MartinArt, Identity Project, Torino, Italy and is represented by Rollo Contemporary Art . Lives and works in Sweden and London.
Louise Camrass, is appropriately named, she makes funny films about love, transvestites, and stuff. She paints fast watercolours of phallocentric painters too. Her films and other work have been shown at galleries including the ICA and Bloomberg Space.
Rose Gibbs coils pots out of clay and relieves them with pictures of birth and sex, a combination, which although logical, some choose to overlook.
She has shown at The Chicago Art Fair and Contemporary Art Projects London.
Private View: Wednesday 23rd January 2008 6:30 - 9pm
Sartorial Contemporary Art
101A Kensington Church Street - London
Open Tues to Sat / 1:30 - 6:30 pm
Free admission