A look at how some of the female image-makers in the show approach the multifaceted male experience BarbicanCentre
The 1970s-coined term ‘male gaze’ describes the depiction of women in the arts from a male point of view. A number of artists inwork to subvert the male gaze, by directly addressing how women are objectified, in turn objectifying men, or questioning gender stereotypes.
Feminist artists like– whose series of photographs depicting the artist as she glues facial hair from a man’s beard to her own face covers a wall of the exhibition – incorporated the body into physical, performance-like work in order to question what makes something masculine.was a response to being on the receiving end of mundane male behaviours and micro-aggressions.
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