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Autograph show explores bodies, ancestry and women’s experiences
London gallery Autograph has opened a three-artist show about bodies, family history and women’s experiences.
The exhibition, Our Bodies Have Been Bridges, includes photographs by the late Chicana artist Laura Aguilar, Ecuadorian artist Koyoltzintli and Peruvian artist Tarrah Krajnak.
Aguilar’s 1996 desert self-portraits show her body blending into, and standing out from, the landscape.
Made when large, queer Chicana bodies had little visibility in culture, the images explore rejection and the desire to belong.
Koyoltzintli restages childhood memories and family rituals, while her other works imagine the story of the first woman on Earth.
Krajnak alters images from Peruvian newspapers and magazines from 1979 to explore the gap between media portrayals and women’s lives.
Autograph’s three-person exhibition Our Bodies Have Been Bridges brings together works exploring bodies, ancestry and women’s experiences.
It includes photographs by the late Chicana artist Laura Aguilar, whose 1996 Nature Self-Portrait series is described as an early work of intersectional feminist art.
Ecuadorian artist Koyoltzintli re-enacts childhood memories and explores women’s knowledge passed between generations.
Peruvian artist Tarrah Krajnak uses altered archival images to examine portrayals of women and private experiences during a period of armed conflict.
The exhibition is part of three concurrent Autograph shows about rebellious bodies.
- Who
- Artists Laura Aguilar, Koyoltzintli and Tarrah Krajnak are featured.
- What
- Autograph’s exhibition Our Bodies Have Been Bridges explores bodies, ancestry, healing and women’s experiences.
- When
- Not stated
- Where
- Autograph gallery, London.
- Why
- The exhibition explores connections to ancestral female knowledge, healing, truth and personal experience.
This story does not have two clearly opposing sides.
A friend took Laura Aguilar on a road trip to New Mexico, where she made nude self-portraits.
Aguilar made Nature Self-Portrait, a series later included in the exhibition.
Autograph first worked on an exhibition of Aguilar’s work.
- Exhibition
- Our Bodies Have Been Bridges
- Gallery
- Autograph, London
- Featured artists
- Laura Aguilar, Koyoltzintli and Tarrah Krajnak
- Aguilar series
- Nature Self-Portrait, 1996
- Krajnak’s focus year
- 1979, the year Peru’s military regime ended and the year she was born
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