From press release:
We are proud to present group exhibition Gazing Bodies, inaugurating our beautiful new space in the East Pavilion of Armémuseum. It features some of our most beloved international superstars together with Swedish luminaries in contemporary art – Shadi Al-Atallah, Karin Mamma Andersson, Arvida Byström, Karon Davis, Marie-Louise Ekman, Leyla Faye, Charlotte Gyllenhammar, Edith Hammar, Hanna Hansdotter, Melanie Kitti, Klara Kristalova, Sarah Lucas, Martina Müntzing, Frida Orupabo, Ylva Snöfrid, Paloma Varga Weisz, Ulla Wiggen, Kennedy Yanko, Cajsa von Zeipel, Ji Zou, Christine Ödlund, and Sixten Sandra Österberg. Thematically, it looks beyond the meaning of artworks, instead creating space for them as multifaceted beings, highlighting their desires and influence over viewers.
Curated by Caroline Wieckhorst, in collaboration with writer Lo Hallén, the exhibition was born out of an interest to explore the relationship between bodily artworks and the viewer via the concept of the gaze. It is a widespread term, primarily thanks to feminist film theory adopting it to explain how visual media reproduces societal power dynamics. Within film and other studies of visual culture, for example art history, the concept has been developed from this particular angle since Laura Mulvey wrote her seminal essay “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema”.
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