Hannah Wilke

Ana Mendieta

Forthcoming: Tate Modern, London

Lygia Clark: Retrospective

Forthcoming: Kunsthaus Zürich

Robert Mapplethorpe

‘Le forme del classico’, Le Stanze della Fotografia, Venice

Maria Bartuszová: a tiny void full of a tiny infinite universe

South Bohemian Gallery, Czech Republic

Kith & Kin: The Quilts of Gee’s Bend

Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin

Sheila Hicks

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Donald Locke: Resistant Forms

Ikon Gallery, Birmingham

Betty Parsons: Sheer Energy

De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex

Veronica Ryan: Unruly Objects

Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio

Sophie Barber: Mackerel sky, mackerel sky, never long wet, never long dry

Hastings Contemporary

Veronica Ryan

at Goodwood Art Foundation, Chichester

Nicola L. – I Am The Last Woman Object

Museion, Bolzano, Italy

Lenore Tawney: Holding us in wonder

The Gund, Kenyon College, Ohio

Sophie Barber

Pièce Unique, Massimo de Carlo, Paris

Hannah Wilke is included in ‘Monster/Beauty: An Exploration of the Female/Femme Gaze’ at Lychee One, London.

‘Monster/Beauty: An Exploration of the Female/Femme Gaze’ is curated by Marcelle Joseph and features the artwork, ephemera and archival photographs of nineteen female-identifying or queer femme artists who portray the feminine body in its sexed or sexual state, empowering the womxn artist as both subject and object as well as image and image-maker.

The works of these artists largely depict the female or queer femme body in a radically narcissistic way as theorised by Amelia Jones or in a ‘monster/beauty’ fashion as theorised by Joanna Frueh, disrupting the gendered polarisations structuring conventional modes of art production and interpretation (i.e., female/object or model vs. male/subject or artist). These feminist ideologies support aesthetic/erotic self- creation, giving agency to people who wish to be erotic subjects and objects – that is, those who wish to enjoy themselves and be enjoyed.