mfc-michèle didier gallery in Paris has on display an exhibition dedicated to The Guerrilla Girls and La Barbe that will run through November 12, 2016.The two groups can be called “Militant Feminists” for their strong and fierce determination to fight for women’s rights and equality in the art industry. An observation was made in 1985 that among all the 169 artists featured in the MoMA exhibition ‘An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture,’ only a small minority were women or artists of color. The group took to the streets against the unjust practices and started distributing flyers, pamphlets and posters with the aim of “opening the public eye to the discrimination which rules within our very phallo- and ethno-centric artistic institutions." They used Gorilla masks to protect their identities; to keep personality out of critical discourse. The masks were not mere protection, but a symbol of sexist oppression and also of feminist out-speak. A similar idea was used by La Barbe, where they wore artificial beards to portray masculine infiltration and dominance over all the social, political, and cultural spheres. The exhibition puts on display their “tools of combat,” that they used in their struggle for equality and justice as feminists. A talk between the two groups inaugurated the exhibition on September 9, 2016.The exhibition is at mfc-michèle Didier, 66 rue Notre-Dame de Nazareth, 75003 Paris.For details, visit: http://www.micheledidier.comClick on the slideshow for a sneak peek at the exhibition.
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