These radical artworks play with the conventions of pornography
Rose Dodd, Dazed
February 2023
Radical feminist artists Hannah Wilke and Linder are both recognised for making provocative work interrogating the societal structures oppressing women.
Despite working accross different generations and geographies (Linder was born in Liverpool in 1954 and Wilke was born in New York in 1940), the two artists share a conceptual and visual affinity for exploring the female body as a site of friction and struggle, unpicking how female identity and sexuality is perceived, performed, packaged and sold. Their bodies of work, spanning photography, performance, photomontage and, in Wilke’s case, sculpture and drawing, are harmoniously paired to oppose and reclaim what has been appropriated by male dominance and, as Laura Mulvey might argue, the male gaze […]