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Marianne Wex, Let's take back our space
"The exhibition The Second Sex – a visual footnote is a visual essay inspired by the book of the same name by French philosopher Simone de Beauvoir, whose existentialist take on many of the issues of feminism first emerged with the publication of Le Deuxième Sexe in 1949. [...]
The Second Sex – a visual footnote presents installations by three woman artists spanning a variety of media, from film, sculpture, and photography to collage. Originating in the 1970s, Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven, Marianne Wex and Ilene Segalove’s work can be considered a visual articulation of the intrinsic ideas of second-wave feminism. Launched during the late 1960s, critiques of patriarchy, capitalism, the woman’s role as wife and mother as well as the relations between race, class, and gender oppression were major topics. Active until the present day however, the concepts in the artists work selected for The Second Sex – a visual footnote also relate to a more inclusive third-wave feminism, which began in the mid-1990s and deconstructed notions of the body, gender, sexuality and hetero-normativity."
The Second Sex - a visual footnote
May 25–July 13, 2013
La Galerie, Contemporary Art Centre, Noisy-le-Sec, France
https://www.facebook.com/pages/La-Galerie-Centre-dart-contemporain/207850822591156?ref=hl
Further reading:
http://moussemagazine.it/the-second-sex-noisy-le-sac/
