The National Gallery of Australia’s Know My Name project is a campaign to redress gender imbalance by celebrating the significant contributions of Australian women-identifying artists through a series of programs and exhibitions; ‘The Body Electric’ included.
The show features works by artists Lynda Benglis, Polly Borland, Pat Brassington, Sophie Calle, Jo Ann Callis, Charis (and George Schwarz), Cheryl Donegan, Christine Godden, Nan Goldin, Petrina Hicks, Mayumi Hosokura, Claire Lambe, Pixy Liao, Anne McDonald, Annette Messager, Tracey Moffatt, Momo Okabe, Lillian O’Neil, Fiona Pardington, Carolee Schneemann, Collier Schorr, Cindy Sherman, Annie Sprinkle, Lyndal Walker and Franchesca Woodman. Collectively, they touch on themes of sex, pleasure and desire, and love and loss as an animating part of the human experience.
Petrina Hicks, Venus from the series ‘The Shadows’, 2013, backlit transparent archival film (lightbox). Courtesy the artist, Michael Reid Sydney + Berlin and National Gallery of Australia, Australian Capital Territory
National Gallery of Australia
Late June 2020 to January 2021
Australian Capital Territory
