HÉLÈNE AMOUZOU, SELF-PORTRAITS 1/2
PHOTOGRAPHY Megan Christiansen PHOTOGRAPHY Megan Christiansen

HÉLÈNE AMOUZOU, SELF-PORTRAITS 1/2

Amouzou thus began photographing herself in the attic with a 35 mm canon camera -and later a Rolleicord - as her lone witness. Not long after, however, she realized that extended exposure times and low-sensitivity films would allow her to move and portray herself without being recognized. Amouzou’s figure appears in motion, traveling through the frame as a fleeting figure…

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MARTHA WILSON, I MAKE UP THE IMAGE OF MY PERFECTION/I MAKE UP THE IMAGE OF MY DEFORMITY, 1974/2008
PHOTOGRAPHY Megan Christiansen PHOTOGRAPHY Megan Christiansen

MARTHA WILSON, I MAKE UP THE IMAGE OF MY PERFECTION/I MAKE UP THE IMAGE OF MY DEFORMITY, 1974/2008

Martha Wilson "I Make Up the Image of My Perfection/I Make Up The Image of My Deformity". A real pioneer in using performance as an artistic medium in itself, Martha Wilson stages her body, and as an actress would do, grinds and transforms herself, creating multiple self-portraits becoming subversive characters…

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HE CHENGYAO, TESTIMONY, 2001–2002
PHOTOGRAPHY Megan Christiansen PHOTOGRAPHY Megan Christiansen

HE CHENGYAO, TESTIMONY, 2001–2002

The photograph presented in the exhibition is one of three works from the series "Testimony", presenting portraits of the artist, her mother and son. Large-format photographs, maintained in a similar style, bring to mind classical Baroque painting: brightly lit figures shown against a uniformly dark background…

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ANNA GAJEWSZKY, IN THE SEARCH FOR VENUS, 2021
PHOTOGRAPHY Megan Christiansen PHOTOGRAPHY Megan Christiansen

ANNA GAJEWSZKY, IN THE SEARCH FOR VENUS, 2021

The series In the search for Venus depicts an intimate examination of my femininity, my body and its comparison to ancient portrayals of Venus. I was 18 years old when I was told by several doctors I had fertility issues, and that becoming pregnant would be difficult for me…

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MATILDA YUEYANG PENG, SPECIAL MATERIALS
PHOTOGRAPHY, INSTALLATION Megan Christiansen PHOTOGRAPHY, INSTALLATION Megan Christiansen

MATILDA YUEYANG PENG, SPECIAL MATERIALS

People made of special materials” is a phrase commonly used to promote the realization of self-fulfillment and self-sacrifice in the communist context. Revolving around the effect of the Chinese Cultural Revolution on my family history, this project is a visualization of a “monologue” constantly going on between all times, people, and materials, especially the single-sided conversation that is speaking to and influencing generations of continual products of historical events...

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DONNA GOTTSCHALK, IMAGES FROM “BRAVE, BEAUTIFUL OUTLAWS”
PHOTOGRAPHY Megan Christiansen PHOTOGRAPHY Megan Christiansen

DONNA GOTTSCHALK, IMAGES FROM “BRAVE, BEAUTIFUL OUTLAWS”

Donna Gottschalk, a photographer active in the early period of radical lesbian organizing in New York and California during the 1970s. Gottschalk came out as a lesbian right at the formation of the radical lesbians and Furies collectives on the east coast, where she met lesbian artists JEB (Joan E. Biren), Flavia Rando, and others, and later moved to California to join lesbian-separatist communities…

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SHELLY SILVER, WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR, 2004,
FILM Megan Christiansen FILM Megan Christiansen

SHELLY SILVER, WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR, 2004,

A woman sets out to photograph moments of intimacy. On an Internet dating site she writes: 'I'm looking for people who would like to be photographed in public revealing something of themselves...

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SABELO MLANGENI, COUNTRY GIRLS, 2003-2009
PHOTOGRAPHY Megan Christiansen PHOTOGRAPHY Megan Christiansen

SABELO MLANGENI, COUNTRY GIRLS, 2003-2009

Glamour and grittiness combine in Sabelo Mlangeni's Country Girls series, an intimate portrait of gay life in the countryside. Mlangeni took the photographs in small towns and rural areas in the Mpumalanga province. Driefontein, Ermelo, Bethal, Piet Retief, Standerton and Sekunda - nodes of mining, agriculture, forestry, and coal-fed power stations….

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OLIVIA ARTHUR, MURMURINGS OF THE SKIN
PHOTOGRAPHY Megan Christiansen PHOTOGRAPHY Megan Christiansen

OLIVIA ARTHUR, MURMURINGS OF THE SKIN

For the past few years I have been making work about the relationship that we have to our bodies as humans. The work grew out of a fascination I developed after being pregnant and feeling my body as a machine performing an incredible task. I went on to explore intimacy, touch, physical connection, stability and the ways we use technology to enhance all those things…

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SPANDITA MALIK, JĀḶĪ—MESHES OF RESISTANCE
PHOTOGRAPHY Megan Christiansen PHOTOGRAPHY Megan Christiansen

SPANDITA MALIK, JĀḶĪ—MESHES OF RESISTANCE

The artist expands upon her photographic series Nā́rī, a project that she began as a graduate student at Parsons School of Design in 2019. For Nā́rī, she traveled to small communities in India known for their distinct embroidery styles and places where women learn handicraft to gain financial independence…

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VAGINAL DAVIS, THE WHITE TO BE ANGRY, 1999
FILM Megan Christiansen FILM Megan Christiansen

VAGINAL DAVIS, THE WHITE TO BE ANGRY, 1999

Vaginal Davis’s touchstone work, The White to be Angry, challenges white supremacy culture in the United States through irony and pastiche. Davis is a key figure in the history of queer music, performance, and video art, whose work bridged the queer performance and punk club scenes of Los Angeles in the late 1970s…

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SHIRIN NESHAT, THE FURY
PHOTOGRAPHY, FILM Megan Christiansen PHOTOGRAPHY, FILM Megan Christiansen

SHIRIN NESHAT, THE FURY

The Fury, comprising a double-channel video installation and a series of black and white photographs. Shot in June 2022, The Fury seeks to capture the Zeitgeist: a sense of foreboding and dread sparked by the resurgence of fascism that we are witnessing…

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NONA FAUSTINE, MY COUNTRY
PHOTOGRAPHY, PRINTMAKING Megan Christiansen PHOTOGRAPHY, PRINTMAKING Megan Christiansen

NONA FAUSTINE, MY COUNTRY

In “My Country,” Faustine confronts and interrogates iconic American monuments, such as the Lincoln Memorial and the Statue of Liberty, using her camera to reframe conventional, colonialist perspectives, and reinserting some of the truth and trauma behind these memorialized spaces…

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MICHÈLE PEARSON CLARKE, SUCK TEETH COMPOSITIONS, 2018
INSTALLATION, FILM Megan Christiansen INSTALLATION, FILM Megan Christiansen

MICHÈLE PEARSON CLARKE, SUCK TEETH COMPOSITIONS, 2018

This three-channel video and sound installation presents a choral symphony structured around the everyday Caribbean oral gesture of sucking teeth. Referred to variously as kiss teeth, steups, chups, and stchoops, to suck teeth is to produce a sound by sucking in air through the teeth, while pressing the tongue against the upper or lower teeth, with the lips pursed or slightly flattened…

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KHADIJA SAYE, DWELLING: IN THIS SPACE WE BREATHE
PHOTOGRAPHY Megan Christiansen PHOTOGRAPHY Megan Christiansen

KHADIJA SAYE, DWELLING: IN THIS SPACE WE BREATHE

The series was created out of the artist’s personal need for spiritual grounding after experiencing trauma. This work is based on the search for what gives meaning to our lives and what we hold onto in times of despair and life changing challenges. We exist in the marriage of physical and spiritual remembrance...

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