"The Furious Gaze"

With a title like The Furious Gaze, this exhibit really did sound exciting. It is a combination of many different artists from around the globe, and includes women from Ireland, Australia, Japan, Afghanistan, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Sweden, the UK and the USA, all culminating together in Spain. Issues of gender, sexuality and questioning the relationships between women and men are some prevalent issues examined in their work. What I like best about this exhibit is that they take it another step further, not only including artists of different backgrounds and races, but on a global level which crosses the borders of nationality and language. I also like the title of the exhibit it’s self. It is a play on the concept of “the male gaze,” which is a term used in feminist theory to critique films, and it describes how audiences are forced to view a film from the male’s perspective. The male gaze focuses on women, and places them in the position of objects. The Furious Gaze turns this around and gives women the right of gazer and lets them focus on things which upset them in their realizations of the glass ceiling found in the world of art. Clearly there is something still wrong in the world of art, as women still need to make exhibits which focuses on the experiences of women which aren’t being incorporated into the mainstream art world.

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Click here to view one of the exhibit's artists Lida Abdul's work on youtube.