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CANADA / MONTREAL: GHADA AMER
until Sunday April 22 2012
Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal
T : +1 514 847 62 26
185, rue Sainte-Catherine Ouest (angle Jeanne-Mance)
H2X 3X5 Montreal
Canada
Curated by Thérèse St-Gelais, this exhibition features largely recent works by Egyptian artist Ghada Amer..
Born in Cairo in 1963, Amer spent a number of years in France and studied fine arts in Nice before moving to New York, where she now lives. Handling subjects as delicate and personal as pleasure and love, Ghada Amer shows that it is possible to resist a conventional representation of women in art. Some of her iconographic references are drawn from the literature of porn and reveal women’s bodies as they are displayed for a heterosexual male audience. Clearly, in Amer’s work, art and pop culture overlap.