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Ann-Sofi Siden: Hayward Gallery. (Reviews: London).(Brief Article)
Artforum International, April, 2002 by Withers, Rachel
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> A mere decade ago, according to UK artworld legend, a well-known London gallerist explained that he avoided representing women artists because their work always seemed to be "about problems." My, how things change. Ann-Sofi Siden's Warte Mal!: Prostitution after the Velvet Revolution, 1999, a kaleidoscopic video work documenting the post-Communist sex industry in Dubi, a Czech border town, must surely qualify as "problem art" with bells on--but it's been launched at the Wiener Secession and shown at the Hayward without anyone in the art business raising an ...
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