An ongoing exhibition which embodies the concept of feminist art is presenting perspectives from three female artists.
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Xiao Lu, The Flowers of Evil,Root of ancient camphor tree 240cm x 190 cm 2012
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The title, Bald Girls, homonymic to The Bald Prima Donna, a famous play by French playwright Eugène Ionesco, is metaphoric of the absurd and awkward multiple reality.
Translated in Chinese, “The Bald Prima Donna” means the bald girl who sings the song while, “Bald Girls” means the bald girls with a dagger-axe. To replace song with dagger-axe aims to imply that in the present Chinese context where feminist art is still something new, artists have to turn to arms instead of entertainment.
Bald Girls, held in the Iberia Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing, runs until April 3. It features three representative contemporary domestic or overseas female artists from different age groups – Lan Jing, Li Xinmo, and Xiao Lu.
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Li Xinmo, LOVE SONG WRITTEN IN WATER Photo of performance 150×100cm 2010
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Different from their predecessors who used to express the pain and pleasure their bodies experienced as a female, the three feminist artists in this exhibition, with their unique art, question the conventional female identity and the concept of gender in China in a revolutionary way. They review and interpret their role, both internal and external, as women from the perspectives of cultural sociology and psychology.
As female artists, they not only express their unique cultural perplexity in the age of consumerism and the globalization but also try to catch any opportunity in social changes to have their independent and equal voice as women.
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