Tag: gender
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Jerwood / Photoworks Awards 5
Award winners Roman Manfredi and Sayuri Ichida bring lost and overlooked communities into view, with Manfredi exploring the history of gender diversity in Neapolitan culture and Ichida looking at Japan’s rapid population decline
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Agata Słowak: Time Is Love
Identity and sexuality are explored in the young Polish artist’s powerful and controversial paintings, in which the female nude is often the central focus
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Trickster Figures: Sculpture and the Body
A clever curation of contemporary sculpture alluding to bodies or systems that relate to bodies, this group exhibition elicits powerful responses that can be felt, not just thought
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Saba Farhoudnia: Reflection
Reflecting on violence, particularly against women and minorities, Farhoudnia’s paintings force us to see that the stories depicted in her works concern all of us and that we should not take freedom of choice for granted
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Mahmoud Khaled – interview: ‘It’s a memorial dedicated to the people who cannot sleep’
As he exhibits two large-scale works in London, the Egyptian artist talks about creating museums, heteronormative male privilege – and Hugh Hefner’s bed
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Shirley Wu: hong kong artists, women
The San Francisco-based, data-driven creative Shirley Wu has designed a scrolling mountainscape that maps data from Wikipedia to draw attention to Hong Kong’s female artists for the M+’s digital education platform
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Masculinities: Liberation Through Photography
I had hoped this would be a show full of challenges and questions, but with its images of bodybuilders, soldiers, bullfighters and athletes, it failed to disrupt the archetypes
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Under Cover: A Secret History of Cross-Dressers
Based on found photographs collected by French film-maker Sébastien Lifshitz, this exhibition at the Photographers’ Gallery examines the historical notion of cross-dressing, but in concentrating on a binary way of thinking, it has missed a trick
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Jamie Crewe: Female Executioner
Seeking ancestry in a controversial and pornographic 19th-century French novel, this queer, transfeminine artist questions the problematic of rehabilitating a historical work of fiction from a contemporary standpoint
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Monica Bonvicini: ‘It is not merely a display of sculptures and objects but a praxis about what it means to produce, show and display’
The Italian artist talks about her survey show at Baltic and how bringing together her works in new combinations helps her see them in different ways
