Gabby Laurent featured in Her Voice: Echoes of Chantal Akerman
The group exhibition Her Voice - Echoes of Chantal Akerman presents photographic and video works by seven contemporary artists, including Gabby Laurent, inspired by the work of Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman.
Manon de Boer, Moyra Davey, Gabby Laurent, Frida Orupabo, Joanna Piotrowska, Collier Schorr and Carmen Winant explore what it means today to be a woman, artist, mother, daughter and lover, providing a contemporary response to the feminist issues raised by Akerman's films. Her Voice shows us that the idiosyncratic filmmaker's radical ideas and feminist critique live on in contemporary art.
Chantal Akerman (1950-2015) remains just as potent an inspiration to artists as she ever was. Her voice is both powerful and inquiring. For her work, Akerman drew on personal experiences and on her reflections about sex, family, trauma, intimacy andoppression. Her radically vulnerable approach was groundbreaking for the 1970s' film and art worlds. It was seen as feminist - and fifty years later, its relevance has not diminished. Just last year, her feminist masterpiece Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) was named the best film of all time by the British Film Institute.
Gabby Laurent, Untitled from Falling, 2020
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