Filipa Lowndes Vicente (ICS-UL) will be delivering the keynote address “Group Exhibitions of Women Artists: An Historical Survey Between Solidarity and Resistance (19th-21th Century)” in the XI Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture, on July 2th, 2021, at 15:00—16:15. The presentation will be held online and at Universidade Católica Portuguesa — Auditório Cardeal de Medeiros.
Abstract:
“When Portugal witnesses by the 1st of June 2021 the opening of the first survey exhibition of Portuguese women artists in a prestigious Lisbon art and cultural institution, Gulbenkian Museum (Tudo o que eu quero — Artistas portuguesas de 1900 a 2020) it seems pertinent to reflect on how this typology has evolved through time and space. With more than a hundred years of history of women artists choosing or being chosen to be exhibited in a space where gender is the limit, several questions can be addressed. What to do when conviviality beyond gender borders is not possible? To choose conflict with the dominant art world, that which had no gender and was therefore dominated by men? Or to choose self-segregation as a strategy to occupy public and visible spaces of display? From the mid 19th century women artists have been discussing and disagreeing on the possible strategies to subvert and counter the discrimination they felt with the art world. How can we think of gender and art, in 2021, when art as politics and conscience could make us believe this is no longer a question? ”
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