Tania Ferrier’s Pop Porn explores the representation of women in the commodity culture of the ‘80s – challenging misogynistic gender ideals, giving voice to feminine authority and prompting deeper reflection on how far, or how little, we’ve come in the last forty years.
Alongside a survey of her internationally renowned Angry Underwear project, Ferrier presents a new print and video series – products of disassembling 1980’s Playboy centrefolds to reframe her own attention to both the objectification of women’s bodies in mainstream porn and taboos about female sexual desire.
Tania Ferrier, Go Go Girls, New York, 1991. Photograph: M. Santo. Courtesy the artist and Fremantle Arts Centre, Western Australia
Fremantle Arts Centre
13 August to 23 October 2022
Western Australia
