The work on gender and ecology in RE/SISTERS at the Barbican suggests that it is time to re-examine and re-engage with ecofeminism.
Anna Souter
Anna Souter is an independent art writer and editor based in London. She is particularly interested in sculpture, women's art, and the environment.
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The Prolific Genius of Frank Walter
The Antiguan artist left behind 6,000 paintings and drawings, 600 sculptures, 2,000 photographs, and 50,000 pages of writings.
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An Artist’s Ode to Worms
For artist Tamara Henderson, worms represent a link between life above and beneath the earth’s surface, transforming death and decay into rebirth and growth.
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Care Isn’t Enough for the Climate Crisis
The exhibition Dear Earth elucidates a broad range of issues around climate change, but stops disappointingly short of a radical call to action.
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Carolina Caycedo’s Spiritual Fieldwork
Land of Friends at BALTIC campaigns for the rights of watershed-dwelling peoples and rivers.
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The Pleasures and Pain of Carolee Schneemann’s Body Politics
Schneemann’s art actions laid bare the continuity between the female body, feminist writing, and sociopolitical acts of protest.
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The Politics of the Air We Breathe
Inspired by Charles Babbage’s idea of air as “atmospheric memory,” In the Air considers air as a common space that belongs to and affects the whole of humanity.
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Dreaming With Homer on an Idyllic French Island
Inspired by the journey made by the epic hero Homer’s Odyssey, a show at Villa Carmignac combines myth with contemporary issues.
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The Hidden Labor of Exhibitions
Condorelli considers how our modes of seeing and reproducing images and environments might develop, questioning how we see — and how we might see differently.
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The British Museum Takes the Feminism Out of Feminine Power
The realities of women’s lives are conspicuously absent from the British Museum’s Feminine Power, a show about the feminine.
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Celebrating Sāmoa’s Third Gender Through Radical Camp
With Paradise Camp, artist Yuki Kihara attempts to challenge and undermine colonial images of Sāmoa through a radical camp aesthetic.
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Tanoa Sasraku’s Enigmatic “Earth Photos”
In finding new ways to read and map landscapes, Tanoa Sasraku disrupts our expectations of the rural and opens up latent memories, mythologies, and energies.
