Ghada Amer: Deitch Projects. (New york).(Brief Article)

One thing I'm tired of--just so you know--is people setting up some dreary idea of feminism in order to justify the pretense that they themselves have done better. "I started with the proposition that feminism had failed," Ghada Amer told Art News last fall, "but it was a positive failure, meaning there were still things to work on." Amer may claim to be reclothing the bones of feminism, but perhaps she's just gnawing them for whatever substance her work has.

By giving her shows titles like "Pleasure," she hopes to distance herself from the so-called ...

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