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Shared Women is an exhibition that is dependent on cronyism, feminism and nepotism. We are supposed to be doing it for the love of the craft, for the love of humankind, for the love of the planet but we are not. We sleep with each other, inspire, plot, plan, respond, complain, collaborate, and analyze. We reorganize and reaffirm our histories every few years, culling histories from ‘the women’ and ‘the gays,’ from outsiders now insiders. This is a gay feminist show that picks up the tools of our mothers and refashions them to seduce and influence each other. Maybe some artists in this show have slept their way to the middle. Maybe some are using that bridge called my back, but all are creating conscientious contemporary feminist art that needs to be seen by more than the “communities” that form around alternative venues, ideologies, and shared women. Welcome to our dirty commerce.
The exhibition was held at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Feb 28th - April 8th, 2007 and curated by A.L. Steiner, Eve Fowler, and Emily Roysdon.
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Spotlight: Ernesto Pujol
Ernesto Pujol is a New York-based conceptual artist with an interdisciplinary art and curatorial practice. He is greatly influenced by feminist art and theory. The themes of his work range from addressing memory to the construction of masculinity to performance.
Pujol’s Feminist Artist Statement:
Feminist art and theory were extremely formative in my early development at the university level, beyond historical European classicism and American Modernism. The work of Judy Chicago, in particular, gave me permission to explore my body. As she laid out the body parts of women through the metaphor of a dinner party, rather than morally hiding them under the veil of traditional virtue, I exposed the vulnerability of men through sculptures, installations, and images of non-heroic and even weak male bodies, prepubescent and adult. To this day, the courage of those early feminists artists remains an inspiration in this extravagantly masculine age of war and false heroes, challenging me, as an openly gay artist, to remain constant in creating non-spectacular, humble, contemplative, and perhaps even prophetic transformative public moments.
Source: thegang
