Adriana Varejão featured in the Whitechapel Gallery's Terrains of the Body: Photography from the National Museum of Women in the Arts

18 January – 16 April 2017

 

Whitechapel Gallery

 

Drawn from the National Museum of Women in the Arts (Washington, U.S.), this collection display showcases photography and video work by seventeen contemporary artists from around the world.

 

By turning their camera to women, including themselves, these artists embrace the female body as a vital medium for storytelling, expressing identity and reflecting individual and collective experience.

 

Featuring work by: Marina AbramovićRineke Dijkstra, Anna GaskellNan GoldinCharlotte GyllenhammarCandida HöferIcelandic Love Corporation, Mwangi HutterKirsten JustesenJustine KurlandNikki S. LeeHellen van MeeneShirin NeshatDaniela RossellEve Sussman and the Rufus CorporationJanaina Tschäpe and Adriana Varejão.

 

Image: Adriana Varejão, Qualquer Coisa, 1998, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Gift of Heather and Tony Podesta Collection, Washington, D.C. © Adriana Varejão, photo: Lee Stalsworth

December 8 2016