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BELGIUM / Brussels: Body Talk: Feminism, Sexuality and the Body
by Modem
© Modem

until Wed. May 13 2015

Wiels
T : +32 (0)2 340 00 50
Av. Van Volxemlaan 354
1190 Brussels
Belgium



Body Talk addresses issues of feminism, sexuality and the body, as they play themselves out in the work of a generation of women artists from Africa active since the early 1990s. Bringing together artists from North, Sub-Saharan and South Africa, this group exhibition strives to define and articulate notions of feminism and sexuality in the work of women artists whose body (their own or that of others) serves as a tool, a representation or a field of investigation.

In their work, the body manifests itself, whether sequentially or simultaneously, as a model, support, subject or object. Ever since, the existence of a specifically African – and black – feminism, together with the spread of artistic practice and the economics of art to international networks, have given shape, since the 1990s, to the development of a black feminist art.

© Modem