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Tuesday, March 26, 2013

YOUR BODY IS A BATTLEGROUND

YOUR BODY IS A BATTLEGROUND

Curated by Raúl Zamudio Taylor

March 22- May 22

Pristine Galerie, Monterrey, Mexico

Pristine Galerie is pleased to announce the international group exhibition, YOUR BODY IS A BATTLEGROUND. The exhibition dovetails on the original source of its title, which is the iconic work by the artist Barbara Kruger. Her silkscreened, photographic vinyl print consists of a black and white frontal image of a woman whose left half of her face is in negative format. Superimposed on the surface from top to bottom is the text YOUR BODY IS A BATTLEGROUND. While rich with metaphor and open-ended in meaning, the juxtaposition of image and the pronoun your alludes to the undermining of women’s rights since Kruger’s piece was designed for the 1989 Women’s March on Washington, D.C.

The exhibition focuses on questions of the body but from a more expansive purview as well as the audience that Kruger’s image addresses. For the body that constitutes the image as well as whom it is directed are not only gendered but also inscribed with class, race, nationality, and sexual orientation. The exhibition comes at a time when “non-normative” forms of agency are expanding the identity rubric to accommodate a protean subjectivity that is mutable and fluid, while the erosion of women’s rights by the political right and myriad denominational religious orthodoxies continues unabated. Although the individual works are thematically independent and diverse in narrative, YOUR BODY IS A BATTLEGROUND is a topical exhibition consisting of painting, sculpture, work-on-paper, graphic art, photography, video, and site-specific installation.

Artists:

Jaishri Abichandani/India

Oreet Ashery/UK

Claudia Baez/USA/Mexico

Ariela Kader Berliavsky/Costa Rica

Ama Birch/USA

Brenda Charles/Mexico

Simone de Beauvoir/France

Jeanette Doyle/Ireland

Paula Elion/Israel

Dalia Elsayed/USA

Andrea Frank/Germany