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Queer Feminist Exhibit OPENING IN NYC - THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 2014
After Our Bodies Meet : From Resistance to Potentiality
Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art
This exhibition explores queer feminist artists’ responses to dominant notions about the body from the 1970’s to present day. Reflecting the ever-growing diversity of feminist art, After Our Bodies Meet provides a cross-cultural examination of how artists represent the body to challenge past and present forms of oppression and to envision a queer future.
After Our Bodies Meet: From Resistance to Potentiality, traces the efforts of contemporary queer artists within the legacy of early feminist art. Bridging these historic and contemporary endeavors not only honors the pioneers of gender-conscious art but also highlights the evolution of feminist thought within artistic representations of queer bodies, including some that question the gender binary on which feminism was first conceived.
FEATURING WORK BY:
Laura Aguilar
Cathy Cade
Heather Cassils
Tee A. Corinne
Chitra Ganesh
Audre Lorde
Allyson Mitchell
Zanele Muholi
Catherine Opie
Chris E. Vargas
Sophia Wallace
Archival materials from the Lesbian Herstory Archives.
CURATED BY: Alexis Heller
EXHIBITION DATES: June 5 - August 3, 2014
26 Wooster Street, New York
Tuesday-Sunday 12-6pm, Thursday 12-8pm
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Resistance. It’s one of the motifs that unifies the artwork from our contemporary collection on display in “The Slipstream: Reflection, Resilience, and Resistance in the Art of Our Time.” This includes the photography of John Edmonds, Elle Pérez, and Zanele Muholi.
Uniquely, these photographs celebrate the self-possessed presence and power of visibility. A do-rag, a chest binder, and a stoic portrait communicate activism in culture, identity and self-expression.
You can see these photographs in The Slipstream through April 10 along with other works from our collection that explore strategies for staying grounded, gathering strength, and considering paths into the future.
Plan your visit: https://bit.ly/32dBqSI
John Edmonds (American, born 1989). The Prince. Inkjet print on silk. Brooklyn Museum, Alfred T. White Fund, 2018.5.2. © artist or artist’s estate → John Edmonds (American, born 1989). Ascent. Inkjet print on silk. Brooklyn Museum, Alfred T. White Fund, 2018.5.1. © artist or artist’s estate → Elle Pérez (American, born 1989). Binder, 2015/2018. Inkjet print. Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Contemporary Art Committee, 2019.15.2. © artist or artist’s estate → Zanele Muholi (South African, born 1972). Sunday Francis Mdlankomo, Vosloorus, Johannesburg, 2011. Gelatin silver photograph. Brooklyn Museum, Robert A. Levinson Fund, 2012.72.1. © artist or artist’s estate
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South African, nonbinary identifying ‘Visual Activist’ Zanele Muholi known self portraits and highlighting the LGBT community in SA ♀️️
From Being, part of a series by Zanele Muholi, 2007.
Scheduled to deliver opening remarks, The South African Minister of Arts and Culture, Lulu Xingwana, stormed out of a 2010 show featuring Muholi’s work depicting the everyday normality of the lives of black lesbian couples.
“It was immoral, offensive and going against nation-building.” Xingwana said, justifying her boycott of the exhibit.
Muholi rejected criticism that her images constituted a pornographic display.
“Those pictures are based on experience and issues. Where else can we express ourselves if not in our democratic country?”
She added: “Children need to know about these things. A lot of people have no understanding of sexual orientation, people are suffering in silence.””
Although same-sex marriage is legal in South Africa and the rights of gays and lesbians are guaranteed in the constitution, crimes of homophobic violence, including “corrective rape,” are rarely investigated by police.
Xingwana was soon removed from her portfolio and given new duties: Minister for Women, Children and Persons with Disabilities.
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