The Utopian Erotics of Women Artists in the 1960s and ’70s
Philomena Epps, frieze
August 2021
Paris, 1966. Nicola L. (then Nicola) exhibited The Screen for Three People: Homage to Alberto Greco (1964–66), the first of her ‘Penetrable’ works. These encouraged participants to incorporate their bodies into the artwork. Comprising three stretched, white, rectangular canvases, the piece was designed to enable individuals to push their heads, arms and legs through various openings, their limbs protruding through the taut fabric, as if they were wearing the painting like a second skin. […]