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n.paradoxa

Artworks by women artists on 30 topics
related to Feminism and Contemporary Art

Introduction

About this topic: A/The Dress

Here a woman's dress, perhaps even "the" dress, is at the centre of the work. Sometimes, these explorations are a critique of femininities, expectations and stereotypes. In other cases, the dress becomes a motif for quite different explorations of consumption, surveillance systems, pattern, excess and political protest.

  1. Atsuko Tanaka (Japan) Denkifuku (Electric Dress) (1956) fluorescent tubes and wires   Centres Pompidou AM 2006-30  


  2. Niki de Saint Phalle (France) Crucifixion (1965) miscellaneous objects on painted polyester  236 x 147 x 61.5 cm    Centres Pompidou 


  3. Mimi Smith (USA) Steel Wool Peignoir (1966) steel wool, nylon and lace 59 x 29 x 8 in.     


  4. Linda Montano (USA) Chicken Dance (Chicken Women Series) (1972 - 1979) performance work with costume      


  5.  Orlan (France) Strip-tease occasionnel a l'aide des draps du trousseau (Incidental Strip-tease using Sheets from the Trousseau) (1974 - 1975) 18 black and white photos (1974) put together as one work (1975)     FNAC, Paris 


  6. Miriam Shapiro (USA) Anatomy of a Kimono (1976) 10 panels, fabric and acrylic on canvas each 6 ft 8 ins x 52.5 ins     


  7. Lorraine O'Grady (USA) Mlle Bourgoise Noire Goes to the New Museum (1981) performance, opening of Personae, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York      


  8. Helen Almeida (Portugal) Noir Exterior (1981) photography and paint 310 x 125 cm     


  9. Jana Sterbak (Czech Republic, Canada) Vanitas: Flesh Dress for an Albino Anorexic (1987) dress constructed from meat     Centres Pompidou 


  10. Emily Hicks (USA) I could not reveal my Identity (1987) performance on US-Mexico border in costume, a bi-national pilgrimage on the Day of the Dead, November 1987      


  11. Lorna Simpson (USA) Guarded Conditions (1989) photo, text     Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego 


  12. Annette Messager (USA) Histoire des Robes/ Story of Dresses (1990) dresses, pastel drawing, black and white photographs, string, pins, wood, glass 376 x 353 x 18 cm     


  13. Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (USA) Paper Dolls for a Post-Columbian World with Ensembles contributed by US Government (1991) watercolour and pencil on photocopy, 13 panels each 17 x 11     


  14. Wiebke Siem (Germany) Collection, Werkgruppe 1 (1991 - 1994) installation, mixed media      


  15. Colette Urban (Canada) Consumer Cyclone (1993) costumed performance, shopping mall, Canada      


  16. Beverley Semmes (USA) Blue Gowns (1993) Velvet and organza 24 x 22 x 27 ft    Collection: Rubell Family Collection, Miami 


  17. Yoshiko Shimada (Japan) Look at Me/Look at You (1995) installation      


  18. N. Pushpamala (India) Phantom Lady or Kismet (1996 - 1998) 10 gelatin silver prints each 50.8 x 40.6 cm     


  19. Egle Rakauskaite (Lithuania) Trap: Expulsion from Paradise (1996) performance, documented in photos      


  20. Alba D'Urbano (Italy) Il Sarto Immortale: Couture (1997 - 1999) project, display photos, objects, models, computer designs on clothes      


  21. Nancy Paterson (USA) Stock Market Skirt (1998) internet, computer, electronics, webcam, monitors, fabric      


  22. Lisa Reihana (New Zealand) Digital Marae Series (2001) digital photo 78 x 46 7/8"    National Gallery, Australia 


  23. Shadi Ghadiran (Iran) Like Every Day Series (2001) colour photo 64 x 61 cm, each    Collection H. Boellen 


  24. Sanae Takahata (Japan) Wear Me (2001 - 2006) installation composed of many dress shaped objects: size 38, acrylic paint and glass beads on rayon      


  25. Alicia Framis (Spain) Anti-Dog (2002 - 2003) performances with costume, Berlin and Amsterdam      


  26.  Ghazel (Iran, France) Me (2003 - 2008) video, performances      


  27. Pilar Albarracin (Spain) Long Live Spain (Viva Espana) (2004) video, colour, sound, 3 mins 30"      


  28. Jill Magid (USA) Evidence Locker. Control Room (2004) digital video installation, surveillance footage from police cameras 7.14 min     


  29. Lalla Essaydi (Morocco, USA) Converging Territories # 30 (2004) chromogenic print, mounted on plexiglass 76.2 x 101.6 cm     


  30. Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen (Denmark) Absolute Exotic (2005) video 4 min     Copenhagen: Statens Museum 


  31. Gulsun Karamustafa (Turkey) The City and the Secret Panther Fashion (2007) video 13 min     


  32. Tania Bruguera (Cuba, USA) The Burden of Guilt (El Peso de la Culpa) (2008) video performance 12 min    Centres Pompidou 


  33. Nezaket Ekici (Turkey, Germany) Blind (2008) video performance, 40 ' - dress is a sarcophagus of plaster, Ekici frees herself with a hammer      


  34. Natalia Pershina-Yakimanskaya (Gluykla) (Russia) Clothes for the demonstration against false election of Vladimir Putin (2011 - 2015) textile, hand writing, wood     http://factoryoffoundclothes.org/ 


  35. Mary Sibande (South Africa) …of Prosperity (2011) dress sculpture and mannequin, South African pavilion, Venice Biennale      


  36. Gao Ling and NvAi (China) Occupy Shanghai Subway: It's a Dress, not a Yes (2012) performance, action on Shanghai subway      


Additional References

Conceptual Clothing (Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, 1986) curators: Fran Cottell and Marian Schoettle