Monica Sjöö
in ‘The Goddess, The Deity and the Cyborg’, The Women’s Art Collection, Murray Edwards College, Cambridge
8 March – 8 September 2024
‘The Goddess, the Deity and the Cyborg’, 2024, installation view, The Women’s Art Collection, Murray Edwards College, Cambridge. Courtesy: The Women’s Art Collection, Murray Edwards College, Cambridge; photo: Deniz Guzel
This group exhibition explores how artists have conjured, revered and reimagined the goddess figure. Drawing from the works in The Women’s Art Collection as well as loans from public and private collections, the exhibition explores the enduring appeal of the goddess and traces how artists have adapted and even transformed the goddess into an ambiguous figure undefined by gender or even bodily form.
Dating from the 1970s to the present day, the curated works include the voices of contemporary artists who present alternative versions of the goddess figure, including non-Western perspectives and ones that complicate accepted notions of the body.