Tag: feminist
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Asinnajaq
Asinnajaq is a Canadian Innuk artist, writer, filmmaker, and curator of Inuit art. In her work, she highlights the importance of human rights, community, and indigenous perspectives in representing different forms of beauty. How might these subjects come together in art? Like Cassi Nomada, the answer lies with the art historical canon, or the traditional…
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Cassi Nomada
Cassi Nomada is a Mozambican painter currently living and working in Italy. Borrowing from magical realism, folklore, and photographic film-stills, Nomada’s artwork straddles dual ideologies to confront the art historical canon. What is art historical canon? Generally, the canon is the group of artworks, artists, and styles that historians and institutions have traditionally considered the…
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Lalla Essaydi
Lalla Essadyi is a Moroccan photographer and artist known for her feminist portraits. Essaydi grew up in Morocco, but she currently lives in the United States. Here, she explores her complex identities. Why “identities”? To Essaydi, it’s important to think of identity as a state of being many things at once. Refusing to restrict yourself…
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Pipilotti Rist
Pipilotti Rist (born Elisabeth Charlotte Rist) is a Swiss video/audio installation artist. Spanning themes of eco-feminism, pop culture, and death, Pipilotti Rist’s work in installation and video art is inspired by the lives of women. To Rist, women are beautiful, colorful beings trying to balance the pressures of society with their individual personalities. Her work…
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