The Institute of Contemporary Art Los Angeles' exhibition Scientia Sexualis critiques the colonial and pathologizing aspects of Western medical systems regarding non-White and non-male bodies. The show features 27 artists, including Joey Terrill and Xandra Ibarra, who explore themes of bodily autonomy and representation through various mediums. Works by artists such as Nao Bustamante offer a more lighthearted approach, while others, like Joseph Liatela's "On Being an Idea," delve into critical theory and symbolism. The exhibition's disjointed feel is partly due to its large, open galleries and the complexity of its themes, which include feminist, trans, and decolonial perspectives on gender and sexuality.
https://hyperallergic.com/992612/reckoning-with-the-science-of-sexuality-ica-la/The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth is hosting an exhibit called "Diaries of Home" featuring photographs by female and nonbinary artists. The exhibit challenges traditional notions of domestic spaces in the US, showcasing works that probe preconceptions about familial and communal areas often associated with femininity.
https://reason.com/2025/02/21/texas-cops-seized-photographs-from-a-museum-and-launched-child-pornography-investigation/Jordan Troeller's book "Ruth Asawa and the Artist-Mother at Midcentury" examines how Ruth Asawa and her contemporaries navigated their roles as mothers while maintaining their artistic careers. The study reveals that these women redefined key concepts of their time, such as autonomy, medium specificity, and originality, by drawing on their experiences as mothers to inform their art.
https://hyperallergic.com/984927/bold-new-books-art-visual-culture-from-mit-press/Artist duo Daryoush Asgar and Elisabeth Gabriel, born in Tehran and Vienna in 1975, create artworks that blend illusionary space with pop-cultural elements, resulting in transhumanist portraits of hybrid creatures. Their work critiques traditional art-historic visual and narrative hierarchies by combining the intimacy of post-impressionism's Intimism movement with the digital sensibilities of Post-Internet Art.
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