Travesties & Masquerades

Jul 01 - Jul 11 2009

ELEANOR ANTIN, JOAN JONAS, MANON, URSULA MAYER, CINDY SHERMAN, HANNAH WILKE

Curated by Gianni Jetzer

A large number of feminist artists from the early 1970’s adopted aspects of self performance and masquerade to unhinge the alignment of certain codes of objectification with the female body, as Amelia Jones remarks in her essay “Manon and Masquerade – Gender as Counter-Transference.”

In conjunction with Manon’s first show in the U.S., five films are added as an additional layer to her exhibition, bringing artists together from different generations and backgrounds, grouped around the idea of the masquerade.

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Hannah Wilke, still from Through The Large Glass, 1976. Courtesy Electronic Arts Intermix.

Ursula Mayer, still from The Lunch In Fur/Le Déjeuner En Fourrure, 2008. Courtesy Monitor Gallery.

Joan Jonas, still from Organic Honey's Visual Telepathy, 1972.Courtesy Electronic Arts Intermix.

Eleanor Antin, still from The King, 1972. Courtesy Electronic Arts Intermix.

Cindy Sherman, still from Doll Clothes, 1975.Courtesy Metro Pictures Gallery.