Reclaiming Her Story: Female Practice in Art across the World

Reclaiming Her Story is an online exhibition curated by a team of four MA students from the University of Leeds.

A woman's role within art has changed vastly across many cultures during the past century.

Against the background of today's social landscape, have you ever wondered how women have fought to take control of their own stories? How do they continuously redefine their own narratives against the force of sexism and the Male Gaze?

Using the collection of The Getty Museum in Los Angeles, this exhibition dives into the work of female artists who made waves through their creative persistence such as Georgia O’Keefe, Yoko Ono and Maya Lin.

Reclaiming Her Story also explores the representations of female private practices, and how these artworks from across multiple cultures capture how similarly women go about their daily lives, in an unspoken form of sisterhood.

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Reclaiming her story is part of a wider series of online exhibitions curated by Art Gallery and Museum Studies and Arts Management and Heritage MA students from the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies, as part of an Interpretations course module.

Visit the online exhibition.

Image

Erich Salomon (German, 1886 - 1944), photographer
[Two Women and a Man at Presseball, Berlin Germany], 1928–1929
Gelatin silver print
Image: 11.7 × 16.4 cm (4 5/8 × 6 7/16 in.)
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 84.XP.447.26
Image available under CC0 1.0 Universal license.