Throughout her work, we see women attempting to free themselves from the entanglements of patriarchy.
Anna Souter
Anna Souter is an independent art writer and editor based in London. She is particularly interested in sculpture, women's art, and the environment.
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Linder’s Monstrous Pop Cultural Assemblages
The artist’s surgical photomontages offer insight into the gendered desire and commercialism at the heart of patriarchal capitalism.
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The Violent and Sensual Bodies of Galli
The artist’s ambiguous figures exist in a continual state of metamorphosis between formation and deformation.
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The Living Divinations of Ithell Colquhoun
The artist’s dreamy paintings and drawings transcend any specific culture, instead drawing on a perennial understanding of the sacred.
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The Unlikely Muse of Soil
The earth itself is fertile artistic ground at Somerset House — but the exhibition stops short of getting visitors’ hands dirty, even in imagination.
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Diedrick Brackens Unravels and Re-Weaves Histories
In his first exhibition in the United Kingdom, the artist creates large-scale tapestries that draw upon the brutal racialized history of cotton.
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Prem Sahib Captures the Unruly Aesthetics of Desire
Sahib brings his minimalist aesthetic to the maximalism of fetish bars and nightclubs, dark spaces in which unruly bodies and complex social codes coalesce.
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A Guide to UK Art Spaces Outside London
The road less traveled, from the Folkestone triennial to Hastings Contemporary, Tate St Ives, and a pub in Winksworth.
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Tove Jansson Found Refuge in Play
Finnish artist Tove Jansson’s childlike worlds are not pure escapism, but rather an expression of a state in which joy and fear are allowed to coexist.
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Vivian Suter’s Paintings Breathe With Life
The fluidity of Suter’s approach to painting and mark-making conveys an ecological sensitivity to the interconnections between people and place.
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Nicola L. Probes the Generative Contradictions of Womanhood
To the artist, the female body can be both vulnerable and protective, objectified orifice and multiplicitous entity.
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The Brutal Exploitation Behind the Belgian Art Nouveau
Sammy Baloji demonstrates how the architectural movement — and implicitly, Belgium as a country and culture — was underpinned by the colonization of the Congo.