Women house
By: edited by Camille Morineau and Lucia Pesapane
Contributors: Manuella Editions; Musée de la monnaie (France); National Museum of Women in the Arts (U.S.)
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9782917217931
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Women artists; Modern Art; Architecture, Domestic, in art; Exhibitions; Domestic space in art; Feminism in art
Description: "Two notions intersect in the 'Women House' exhibition: a gender (female) and a space (the domestic sphere). Architecture and public space have traditionally been male preserves, whereas domestic space has been that of women; this historic fact is not, however, inevitable, as the exhibition demonstrates. Is the 'woman-house' a refuge or a prison, or can it become a space for creativity? The exhibition and accompanying catalogue reflect the complexity of possible points of view on the subject, which are not only feminist but also poetic and nostalgic. Women artists turn the house inside out: a symbol of isolation becomes a symbol of the construction of identity, the intimate becomes political, private space becomes public space, and the body turns into a piece of architecture. According to different cultural contexts and generations of artists, the house becomes a body-house, a homeland-house, or even a world-house."
Notes: Catalog of the exhibitions held at 11 Conti, Paris, October 20, 2017 - January 28, 2018, and the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C., March 9 - May 28, 2018.

Includes work by artists: Carla Accardi, Helena Almeida, Nazgol Ansarinia, Monica Bonvicini, Louise Bourgeois, Heidi Bucher, Claude Cahun, Pia Camil, Johanna Demetrakas, Lili Dujourie, Lucy Gunning, Mona Hatoum, Birgit Jürgenssen, Kirsten Justesen, Karin Mack, Isa Melsheimer, Zanele Muholi, Lucy Orta, Letícia Parente, Sheila Pepe, Martha Rosler, Elsa Sahal, Niki de Saint Phalle, Miriam Schapiro, Anne-Marie Schneider, Lydia Schouten, Cindy Sherman, Laurie Simmons, Penny Slinger, Laure Tixier, Valie Export, Joana Vasconcelos, Ana Vieira, Rachel Whiteread, Sue Williamson, Francesca Woodman, Nil Yalter, Shen Yuan, and Andrea Zittel.

Translated from the French.

Includes bibliographical references.

"Women House" : October 20, 2017-January 28, 2018, 11 Conti, Paris, France.

"Women House" : March 9-May 28, 2018, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, District of Columbia, United States.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Remembering 'Womanhouse', 1972  -- Judy Chicago; title: From the Housewife to the Nana-Maison: Domesticity as a Key Theme for Women Artists  -- Camille Morineau and Lucia Pesapane; title: Our Bodies, Ourselves  -- Giovanna Zapperi; title: The Death of the Housewife  -- Gabriele Schor; title: Traces of Home and Chances of Skin  -- Gill Perry; title: Nomadic Fictions  -- Flavia Frigeri; title: And What About the Men?  -- Lucia Pesapane; title: Desparate Housewives --; title: Home is Where it Hurts --; title: A Room of One's Own --; title: A Doll's House --; title: Marks --; title: Construction as Self-Construction --; title: Mobile Homes --; title: Femmes-maisons.