There may be several factors that lead to women artists being less visible on the visual art scene, but for Dany Louise, the route to gender equality is obvious.
Why are so many women in the arts still scared of the ‘f’ word – by which, of course, I mean feminism? It’s one of the many questions being addressed by curators Lucy Day and Eliza Gluckman (Day + Gluckman) in their A Woman’s Place project, and it was refreshing to hear them stand up in their January research symposium and declare, proudly and loudly: “We are feminists”.
Sadly, nowadays it seems more usual to hear or read a variation of: “I’m not a feminist but…” The artist Binita Walia has a succinct response to this: “What? So you don’t believe in gender equality?”
This is, after all, what we’re talking about – equality, even if that means equality within a patriarchal society. And gender inequality still seems to be rife within contemporary art. The majority of arts organisers have long been women, although not in the top jobs – ACE is still to appoint a female chief executive, despite having had several very capable women in senior positions... Keep reading on a-n
Why are so many women in the arts still scared of the ‘f’ word – by which, of course, I mean feminism? It’s one of the many questions being addressed by curators Lucy Day and Eliza Gluckman (Day + Gluckman) in their A Woman’s Place project, and it was refreshing to hear them stand up in their January research symposium and declare, proudly and loudly: “We are feminists”.
Sadly, nowadays it seems more usual to hear or read a variation of: “I’m not a feminist but…” The artist Binita Walia has a succinct response to this: “What? So you don’t believe in gender equality?”
This is, after all, what we’re talking about – equality, even if that means equality within a patriarchal society. And gender inequality still seems to be rife within contemporary art. The majority of arts organisers have long been women, although not in the top jobs – ACE is still to appoint a female chief executive, despite having had several very capable women in senior positions... Keep reading on a-n