In connection with the exhibition Geta Bratescu – Apparitions, renowned curator and art historian Catherine de Zegher will discuss the practice of Geta Bratescu by connecting it to the work of other women artists. According to Catherine de Zegher, Geta Bratescu formulated an independent voice and addressed the in-between space of life and art, the public and private, the feminine and corporeal, the abstract and the real, the subject and the object.
Through repoliticising the female body, the ceaseless play of unravelling hidden traps of language, and challenging the triumphant gaze, Bratescu has participated throughout the twentieth century, and into the twenty-first century, in the internationally progressive development of art as a reflexive and social practice. Not only is art, in this, a part of social production: it is itself productive or generative. In this view, art is not static and fetishized but above all dynamic: constitutive rather than constituted. If in order to become a fully social being the individual must become a fully competent user of language, and if language constructs both individualities, or subjects, and also the social relation between them, the necessity for symbolizing and naming the feminine becomes clear. Still, and maybe now more than ever, feminine activism and analysis must lead the way and provide empowering visions for the future.”
The talk will be followed by a discussion with the exhibition curator, Magda Radu.
Admission with ticket of the 57th International Art Exhibition.
