The Polyphony of the Body
Chantal McStay, Art Review
February 2025
Spanning the early twentieth century to the 2010s, with a focus on the late 1960s to early 90s, the exhibition highlights major figures of the early feminist art movement. It features, for instance, the stretched pantyhose of Senga Nengudi’s sculpture and performance series R.S.V.P. (1977), two Judy Chicago vaginal car-hood designs (1965/2011), Ana Mendieta’s painted work Untitled (Amategram) (c. 1982) and Mary Kelly’s notorious Post-Partum Document (1973–79), among others. It also brings attention to lesser-known ‘outsider’ artists, such as Forrest Bess, a painter of spare abstract images based on visions of spiritual and physical transformation, and Ted Joans, organiser of the correspondence drawing project Long Distance (1976–2005). […]