Gender and art

The ICA has invited artist and designer Julie Verhoeven to respond to the Fox Reading Room, creating an immersive installation that explores concepts of femininity and modes of display. Primarily known for her work as a fashion designer and illustrator, Verhoeven here creates what she describes as a “grotto of visual excess”: an installation that is playful, yet visually cacophonic and ominous defying and questioning our own perceptions of femininity, gender and taste.

Julie Verhoeven: Whiskers Between My Legs

9 December 2014–18 January 2015 

Institute of Contemporary Arts, London

https://www.ica.org.uk/whats-on/julie-verhoeven-whiskers-between-my-legs

The scale of the thing is enormous. It is strong, it is bold. Inspired by Tate Britain’s position near the Thames it fills the Duveen Galleries with material in complete contrast to the classical lines but, oddly, it still complements the surroundings.  If it had been constructed by a man, it might have been called masculine but it has not; it is by a women and it proves that women can be every bit as daring. Look out at the exhibits in the nearby galleries and it makes everything else look rather tame.[...]"

Dock runs until 19 October, admission free.

http://www.tate.org.uk/search/barlow%20dock

"Performance and installation artist Sue Austin has been using a wheelchair for 16 years. As an artist, she embraces the experience as a foundation for her artwork, where she challenges the stigma of the disabled as 'other' and creates opportunities for empowerment. Her website states, "Over an extended period of time her practice has operated as a vehicle to open up a thinking space around the materiality of the wheelchair."

Creating the Spectacle is a body of work involving filmed and live exhibitions of her adventures under water. In this series of photographs, Austin explores the world without limitations as she swims among the fish in a self-propelled wheelchair."

Museum M (Louvain - Belgique) présente la première exposition monographique en Belgique de l’artiste française Isabelle Cornaro (°1974), qui vit et travaille à Paris. En 2010 elle était lauréate du Prix Fondation d'entreprise Ricard. Son œuvre exprime son intérêt pour la détermination historique et culturelle de la perception humaine. Sa formation initiale en tant qu'historienne de l'art a contribué à forger son langage visuel original. Son travail est ainsi étroitement lié aux formes et compositions du passé, allant du baroque ou du classicisme à l'abstraction moderniste.

Jusqu'au 3 août 2014.