Three Women
Warsaw, Poland
Zacheta National Gallery
March 1st to May 8th 2011
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Despite their different backgrounds and heterogeneous, multilayered oeuvres, Polish artists Maria Pininska-Beres, Natalia LL (Lach-Lachowicz), and Ewa Partum were grouped together from the 1960s through the '90s by critics who discussed them in terms of their works' common feminist agency. In this show, titled after a work by Pininska-Beres (who passed away in 1999), selections from each artist's primary medium - sculpture, photography, and text/language, respectively - as well as documentation of ephemeral actions, will offer a broad view of the three practices following art historian Marsha Meskimmon's process-related concept of feminism. Meanwhile, a rich catalogue promises to provoke reflection on what, in the 1970s, we called feminism, and how this term might operate today.

- Sylwia Serafinowicz-Wesolowska