Bald Girls Exhibition - Beijing

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To Fight against Patriarchal Chauvinism, demand equal human rights, and restore feminism to its rightful place.

To remain independent of conventional gender definition, advocate rebellious spirit in "the Bald" and unconquerable will in "the Guerrilla Girls".

To get free of village culture, go beyond individualism and move into a new age of cross-gender

　　　　　　　　　

Curator﹕Juan Xu

Time:March 3rd, 2012 - April 3rd, 2012

Place: Iberia Center for Contemporary Art 798 Beijing

Opening﹕March 3rd, 2012, 3 pm

Academic chair：Prof. Daozi Prof.Tong Yujie

嘉宾：Guests︰Christa Stolle 德国女权代表, Sandra Miranda Pattin 意大利女性主义艺术家兼策展人, Tony Cragg杜塞尔多夫美院院长, 潘公凯Pan Gongkai中央美术学院院长 Chairman of Central Academy of Fine Art of Bejing,高名潞 Gao Minglu 策展人, Didi Kirsten Tatlow 纽约时报撰稿人

The title, The Bald Guerrilla Girls, plays on The Bald Prima Donna, a play written in the 1930s by Eugène Ionesco, a French playwright of the Theatre of the Absurd. It refers to China's current, absurd reality, in w

hich women's reality is complex and awkward as they face chaotic new social structures. Instead of "song" we offer "dagger-axe" (the words sound the same in Chinese), to make clear that in the present Chinese context where Feminist Art is still something very unusual and new, artists have to turn to metaphorical arms instead of entertainment. Disguised by absurdity, artists must take historical responsibility and show the way.The exhibition includes three contemporary domestic or overseas female artists of different ages. With their unique art language, they unconventionally challenge the long and established social identity of Chinese women and the concept of gender in China. They reject the common practice in feminist art that usually equates the female body with the "me" subject. They examine the limits of women's experiences of pain and joy in a patriarchal society, and review and interpret women's roles in culture, sociology and psychology. As feminist artists, they express their cultural perplexity in a consumer society and amid globalization, and take advantage of the great social transformation through which they are able to find their independent and equal voices as women.