FAN LIU, IRIS SCHIEFERSTEIN,

MATHILDE TER HEIJINE, EUGENIA VARGAS PEREIRA

TROUBLE DIARIES I:

FOUR STANCES

A GROUP EXHIBITION

 

LOS ANGELES

"A personal diary entails an intimate conversation connected with the self, and the promise of avoiding disappearance and disintegration".

 

"Trouble Diaries: Four Stances" is a series of exhibitions exploring the unique positions and approaches of women artists from around the world. The series begins in Los Angeles, with work by artists from diverse backgrounds and experiences. Regardless of cultural difference, they share similar concerns and a critical view of the role of woman within society. The series sheds light on individual actions that build a collective experience through a female perspective. The intimate life of a person can complicate the way they address broader political agenda. The construction of collective memory without losing sight of personal feelings and emotional bonds cannot be easily classified into theories which rationalize, and thus dominate, politically. 

 

The artists use similar strategies of performance and the appropriation of traditional genres, to reveal how the female body becomes a political subject when exposed as a critical weapon. French-born Mathilde ter Heijne of Berlin, Germany confronts socio-political gender issues and intersectional feminism through performance. Her videos explore the issue of self-immolation as a moral and ideological act. Fan Liu of Wuhan, China appropriates traditional Chinese watercolor painting on silk to reveal a painful reality that surpasses the beauty of depicting nature. Her work combines classical imagery with the consciousness of the modern female identity to explore an intrinsic discourse about gender in society and culture. Iris Schieferstein of Lich, Germany uses the female body as a prop in her photographs of recreated scenes in history. Chilean-born Eugenia Vargas Pereira of Miami, USA uses photography to create a series of "storytales" with a beautiful heroine, who, dressed to kill and equipped with phallic protection, offers opposition to the world she inhabits, a world in which fear is the new norm.

 

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Bergamot Station - 2525 Michigan Ave., Unit F2

Santa Monica, CA 90404 

 

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