25/02/14
Salon Hystérique: La
Petit Mort et La Grande Hystérie
A group art
exhibition of hysteric feminisms
Curated by Gabriella
Daris
Blacks Members Club,
67 Dean Street
21 January – 19 April 2014
In
what seems to be a season of feminist art shows in private members’ clubs
around London (this comes hot on the heels of 2Q13: Women Artists, Women
Collectors, curated by Marcelle Joseph and Lydia Cowpertwait, at Lloyd’s Club
last autumn), curator Gabriella Daris has brought together, in the sumptuous Georgian
townhouse surroundings of Blacks on Dean Street, some high quality and
enjoyable works exploring what it means to be a woman, to have a vagina and a
womb, and to use these bodily parts both for the furthering of life as well as
for personal pleasure. Of course, as the title suggests, the exhibition also
explores the association of the womb with hysteria, from its origins, at the
time of continental mind doctors such as Charcot and Freud, to its current day
incarnation, perhaps more commonly associated with feminist emancipation and
desire.
To read the rest of this review, please go to: http://www.divamag.co.uk/category/arts-entertainment/review-salon-hysterique.aspx