"The history of Western art is full of images of women who are seductive, compliant, submissive, defeated....Heroines is an anthology of strong women who are active, independent, creative, triumphant....Or, to use a key word at the top of the feminist agenda for the last few decades, this exhibition is interested in images which could be sources of empowerment for women themselves....
This exhibition is also a kind of city of women centred especially on the cycle of modernity , from the 19th century to the present day. Following a thematic rather than a chronological order, it explores the backgrounds and aspirations of heroies: the iconography of solitude, work, delirium, sport, war, magic, religion, reading and painting. In each chapter artworks from different periods, languages and artistic environments are juxtaposed, providing food for thought on what has changed through those differences and what has remained the same......" (Heroines, extract)
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| Frida Kahlo. Self-portrait with necklace of thorns. 1940 |
