REILLY MAURA

(H/B) CURATORIAL ACTIVISM
Despite decades of postcolonial, feminist, anti-racist and queer activism and theorizing, the art world continues to exclude 'Other' artists - those who are women, of colour and LGBTQ. Indeed, the more closely one examines the numbers, the more glaring it becomes that white, Euro-American, heterosexual, privileged and, above all, male artists continue to dominate the art world. The fight for gender and race equality continues apace. Focusing on themes of feminism, race and sexuality, Curatorial Activism examines the pioneering exhibitions...
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(H/B) GHADA AMER
Over the past three decades, Ghada Amer's quest to forge an aesthetic language for the oppression of women has established her as one of the most important and widely exhibited contemporary artists. Born in Cairo in 1963, and moving to France at age 11, from early on in life Amer was witness to the cross-cultural subjugation of women, whether from increasing religious conservatism in Egypt, or via the subtler machinations of Western commodity culture. In Amer's hand-embroidered paintings, delicate abstract tracings of sewn thread are count...
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