Digital photograph + text on cotton paper
Variable dimensions
Limited editions numbered and signed
2021
An image of a female figure that has been erased stands alongside artworks by prominent female artists displayed at major art institutions. Her silhouette is that of a ghost. The photographic series proposes to reflect on the scandalous persistence of gender inequality in the arts. Despite their brilliant careers, the selected artists are just deviations to the norm, as merely tokens of a highly hierarchized (male) art world, where successful women are exceptions. Each image is underlined with phases taken from articles, theses and essays about the profound disparity between men and women in the art world. The work is part of my master’s degree in Fine Arts, Intermedia, at Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do Porto.
Featuring:
1 - Adriana Varejão. Coelacanth Provoques Seaquake. Intututo Inhotim. Brazil, 2016;
2 - Joana Hadjithomas & Kalil Joreige. Latent Images - Diary of a Photographer. Venice Bienalle, Italy, 2015;
3 - Tacita Dean. Fatigues. Museu Fundação Serralves. Porto, Portugal, 2019;
4 - Chiharu Shiota. The Key in the Hand, Venice Bienalle. Italy, 2015;
5, 6 - Barbara Kruger. Untitled (Past, Present, Future). Stedelijke Museum. Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2017.
Museu FBAUP, Porto, Portugal. Entremeios, 2020. Exhibition view.
Galeria Cozinha. FBAUP, Porto, Portugal. A Montanha como Metáfora, 2021. Exhibition view.