I’ve changed the theme of my personal curatorial programme, and below is my revised personal curatorial programme: “Her Body Is Not a Metaphor: Re-presenting the Female Body”
Curatorial Concept
This exhibition aims to expose and reflect on the stigmatisation, objectification and mythologisation of the female body in art history, and to re-present the female body as subjective from a contemporary feminist perspective. The exhibition will present a series of installation, photography, video, sound and written works by female artists, centred on the three chapters of ‘Body as Battlefield, Body as Memory, Body as Language’, which will interrogate the gaze and emasculation of women’s bodies in traditional art, and rebuild a narrative structure centred on women’s experiences.
Aims
To critique the visual model of art history that objectifies the female body as an ‘object of gaze’ and a ‘body to be desired’.
To show how women artists create, resist and heal through their own bodily experiences.
To create an exhibition space that supports the autonomy, expression and diversity of the female body.
Inviting the audience to participate in the re-perception and empathy of the female body.
Themes
The Gaze and Control
Explores the ways in which the male gaze, medical violence, body shaming and aesthetic norms regulate the female body.
Body and Trauma
Presents the body as a site of oppression and violation, but also as a site of memory and repair.
Body and Reclamation
Presenting how women reclaim discourse through the body, which becomes a medium of action, language, and resistance.
Exhibition Structure
Part I: Look at Me, Not at the Object
Showcasing anti-gaze works that reveal the construction and exploitation of the female body by the male perspective in art history.
Part II: Body Memory Archive
Presenting the body’s deep connection to personal experiences such as trauma, childbirth, illness, and aging.
Part III: Body as Language
Explores how the body is a vehicle for expression and how women artists use the body as a medium for writing, action, prayer or resistance.
Space and Audience Experience
The space is designed with privacy and respect in mind, and some areas of the exhibition allow visitors to write, record or draw personal memories related to their bodies.
The Silent Room is set up to allow visitors to quietly reflect and experience audio works by female artists.
Provide the audience with a ‘body perception map’, inviting them to re-understand the existence of the body through tactile, auditory and other non-visual means.
Curatorial Statement
Through this exhibition, we hope to fight for a place for the female body, no longer as a tool to be viewed, regulated and modified, but as a subject that carries experience, language, anger and tenderness. Her body is not an allegory, not a fantasy, not a symbol, her body is herself.
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