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section, which championed pioneering feminist artists from the 1960s and 70s,. This new appraisal presents solo booths from a selection of international galleries who are exhibiting female artists that changed the landscape of the institutional and market-led art world in the 1980s and 90s.
South African artist Berni Searle works with photography, video and film to investigate historic narratives, memory and emotional loss. As an artist working under apartheid in the 1980s and early 90s, her work examined the way in which her own identity was imposed upon her by racist strictures.
. In this 20-minute video, a pair of hands claws and rips away at flocked wallpaper, revealing layer upon layer of women’s faces. Issues of female frustration, misdiagnosed madness and gender constructs all come together in this eerie and frenetic short film.4. Mary Kelly, Pippy Houldsworth Breaking what she has referred to as the ‘canvas ceiling’, Mary Kelly has been fighting against institutional discrimination since the 1970s. She was the first woman to have a solo show at the ICA in 1976 with, the first female full professor of art at UCLA in 1996, and she introduced the Women and Art course at Camberwell College. Her work is also held in international collections across the world.
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