Art Gallery

Silent Screams

Curator: Matthias Arndt

April 10 - June 5, 2004

Sooner or later in history, it is time for every historical constellation to be defined in one term. This also applies to the constellation of art, femininity and language, for instance. There is no doubt that art, throughout the centuries, from cave paintings to nude pictures in classic western painting has always been linked to certain forms of femininity. And, no doubt, women were brought up as subjects of art - and as the subjects of femininity of art itself - precisely when the first female artists appeared on the scene (provided we do as if there had been no female artists before, even at the very beginning already). It was the appearance of psychoanalysis, however, which caused the linkage between femininity and language - and, indirectly, the linkage of both of them to art - to become a central aspect of modern culture.

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