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‘GLOBAL FEMINISTS REMIX’ OPENS AT BROOKLYN MUSEUM AUGUST 3

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BROOKLYN, N.Y. — Forty-four works selected from “Global Feminisms” will once again be on view at the Brooklyn Museum in the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art in “Global Feminisms Remix,” on view August 3–February 3. Like its widely praised predecessor, “Remix” seeks to challenge the dominance of European and American contemporary art and explore such issues as racial and gender identity, politics and oppression.

“Remix” assembles works by 40 women artists, who represent countries that are seldom involved in the contemporary art discourse, such as Guatemala, Kenya, Pakistan, Thailand, Korea and India. The wide range of media employed in the exhibition includes paintings, sculpture, photography, works on paper and video.

In this exhibition, many of the artworks are infused with political activism. From Afghanistan, Lida Abdul is represented by a single-channel video White House, 2005, which shows the artist white-washing a building in bombed-out Kabul. Sigalit Landau, an Israeli video artist, swings a barbed wire hula-hoop around her naked, bloody stomach in which pain symbolizes the geographical barrier created along the West Bank.

While other exhibiting artists’ themes are not as politically charged, they do create intense, emotive works that celebrate social freedoms or confront oppression. From Japan, Miwa Yanagi’s photograph from “My Grandmother” series, depicts an elderly model with flaming-red hair riding sidecar on a motorcycle driven by her young lover. Japanese artist Ryoko Suzuki contributes a mural-sized installation of three photographs in which her face is bound tightly by pig’s intestines, where she is bullied into a kind of mute, anonymous submission.

Among the artists represented are Pilar Albarracin, Spain; Ghada Amer, Egypt; Arahmaiani, Indonesia; Pipilotti Rist, Switzerland; Tracey Moffatt, Australia; Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen, Denmark; and Tracey Rose, South Africa.

The specific works have been chosen by co-curators Maura Reilly, curator of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, and Linda Nochlin, Lila Acheson Wallace Professor of Modern Art at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.

The museum is at 200 Eastern Parkway. For information, www.brooklynmuseum.org or 718-638-5000.