I went for the Feminist Avant Garde exhibition at the photographers gallery, as research for COP. I had never been down to London alone before so that was a travelling experience. Opted for the train instead of a torturous 5-6 hour bus journey.
The Exhibition:
Contained absolutely loads of really inspiring work. Obviously it was mostly photography or performance films, being at the photographers gallery. I found loads of artists that I could really engage with the work, I liked some of the stuff so much I bought the book of the exhibition just so I could keep looking at it.
The kind of work there was stuff that really challenged views of women. There was an obvious embrace of femininity and autonomous female sexuality in a lot of the work, in defiance of the over-sexualised, male gaze orientated view of women and the completely de-sexualised view of women.
The work was subversive of its time and I believe is also subversive now, and although a lot of the work I've done has been fun and not serious I am becoming more interested in making subversive work that could raise awareness for important issues.
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