‘MAINS GANTEÉES ET PIEDS BOTTÉS’: Sharon Kivland featured in exhibition

MAINS GANTEÉES ET PIEDS BOTTÉS: Représentations d’armées de femmes et corps collectifs féminin
Éditions Incertain Sens / Cabinet du livre d’artiste, Université Rennes 
17 February 2019 – 19 March 2019
Curated by Lise Lerichomme

Women in battalions are often portrayed as caricatures, assigned to be only the mechanical or erotic repetition of a generic character. Yet these alignments of booted feet and gloved hands are also emancipatory patterns. Faced with representations that leave no room for chosen identities and even less for heroines, many artists invent new models of collective bodies and armies of women.

Featuring: Atelier McClane, Nina Childress, Coco Fusco, Agnès Geoffray, Grandville, Guerrilla Girls, Marie-Ange Guilleminot, Sharon Kivland, Barbara Kruger, Suzanne Lacy, Lennep, Violaine Lochu, Alex Martinis Roe, Meg Mateo Ilasco, Mashid Mohadjerin, Lisa Robertson & Matthew Stadler, Robida, Rosambeau, Xavier Sager, See Red Women’s Workshop, Taroop & Glabel, Miwa Yanagi, Rote Zora, etc., and the iconographic collections of he Marguerite Durand library.

Dr Sharon Kivland is a Reader in Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University. Find out more about Sharon Kivland’s books and other works here.