THE FEMALE LENS
Richard Taittinger Gallery is excited to welcome the new International Center for Photography to the Lower East Side with our first group photography exhibition. The Female Lens seeks to explore how the female gaze informs the construction of images and the construction of identity. The images included in this show seek to explore how women see women and to interrogate ideas of femininity, camaraderie, gender, privilege, oppression as well as the other themes that women navigate consciously or unconsciously on a near-daily basis.
The choice to focus exclusively on female photographers facilitates a discussion of the role of women in art history, but also in the creation, performance, direction, and expression of femininity, gender, identity, and gaze. This exhibition strives to be intersectional while acknowledging that no one exhibition can exhaust these themes. Our exhibition features work by cis and trans women of a variety of ages and nationalities. The conversation created by and between the works of The Female Lens begins to probe the themes of gender and identity, and challenge outdated understandings of the male and female gaze.
Artists exhibited include Charlotte Abramow, Diane Arbus, Arvida Bystrom, Zackary Drucker, Maryam Eisler, Yagazie Emezi, Frances Goodman, Rania Matar, and Shirin Neshat.
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Featured Artist(s)
@charlotteabramow Charlotte Abramow is a Belgian photographer and filmmaker whose work combines seriousness and absurdity. She began taking pictures of her friends at the age of 7, and became passionate about image-making at the age of 13. By 16, she was...
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Arvida Bystrom
Maryam Eisler
@yagazieemezi Yagazie Emezi is an artist and self-taught photojournalist from Aba, Nigeria focused on stories surrounding African women and their health, sexuality, education, and human rights. She began her journey in 2015 and has since worked with Al-Jazeera, New York...
View Artist Page →Frances Goodman obtained her Master of Fine Arts Degree from Goldsmiths College at the University of London in 2000 and holds a Laureateship from the Hoger Instituut Voor Schone Kunsten in Belgium. She was a recipient of the Cecily Brown...
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