Brilliant Things to Do This July
Daisy Woodward, AnOther
July 2024
The late feminist Austrian artist Birgit Jürgenssen dedicated her career to investigating how “women’s interior lives [are] refracted in exterior systems of power”, using a variety of media, including drawing, painting, photography and collage, for the purpose. Now, a new exhibition at Alison Jacques plunges viewers deep into Jürgenssen’s oeuvre, revealing how she employed recurring symbols – from hair, leaves and shoes to screens, masks and mirrors – as tools for examining female identity and the act of image-making, and to critique prevailing hierarchies. […]