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Exhibition: RE/SISTERS

I recently went to see an exhibition called RE/SISTERS: A Lens on Gender and Ecology at the Barbican Arts Centre.

Exhibition: RE/SISTERS

This is a large group exhibition exploring the relationship between gender and ecology, highlighting the systemic links between the oppression of women and the degradation of the planet. The exhibition featured the work of approximately 50 international female artists, including those in the fields of photography and film. Because of the large number of artists in the exhibition, the show occupies two floors of exhibition space. The works in this exhibition explored women's understanding of the environment and how to resist the logic of the capitalist economy. It is evident in the exhibition that the capitalist economy is centred on the exploitation of the planet. What I found to be a very powerful exhibition was that the artists visually documented the ecology that capitalism destroys in the course of its development through video installations and text, showing the fragility of the natural landscape. In addition, the artists' candid integration of their own bodies into the environment made me begin to rethink the relationship between humans and the environment.

© 2024 by Xiangyi Huang.

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