Review: A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women, Muzeum Susch
Kasia Redzisz and Francesco Tenaglia, Mousse
March 2019
The inaugural exhibition at Muzeum Susch – located in a small village in Switzerland’s Engadin valley, in an ancient monastery that has been exquisitely renovated and enlarged – takes its name from an essay by the US writer Siri Hustvedt.
The presentation concerns the feminine in visual art (with a prevalent, but not exclusive, presence of female authors) and, as suggested by the intricate game of looks in the title, the curator preferred subtlety and multiplicity over grand curatorial gestures. The exhibition invites visitors to traverse a path, set up with originality and rigor, through artistic productions that reflect on twentieth-century life experiences and expectations around being a woman. […]