VOICING THE SILENCE. THE EXHIBITION

  • Sarah Browne, "The Shambles of Science", 2018, Video, 30 min. (still).
    1/4 | Sarah Browne, "The Shambles of Science", 2018, Video, 30 min. (still).
  • Nika Dubrovsky and David Graeber (The Yes Women), "Never Mind Us!", 2019, Public installation in Alexanderplatz, Berlin, Dimensions variable.
    2/4 | Nika Dubrovsky and David Graeber (The Yes Women), "Never Mind Us!", 2019, Public installation in Alexanderplatz, Berlin, Dimensions variable.
  • Natalia Nikulenkova, "Captured Bodies", 2021.  Video 12', poster, performance, personal diaries, objects
    3/4 | Natalia Nikulenkova, "Captured Bodies", 2021. Video 12', poster, performance, personal diaries, objects
  • Sonia Kazovsky, "Power Play Fighting for Dead and Non-Existent Spirits", 2019, Performance documentation
    4/4 | Sonia Kazovsky, "Power Play Fighting for Dead and Non-Existent Spirits", 2019, Performance documentation
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What: 
exib
Where: 
ЦТИ Фабрика, Переведеновский пер.,18, Москва
When:
17.07.2021 - 19:00

VOICING THE SILENCE

curated by Creative Association of Curators TOK

 

 

Opening reception: July 17, 2021, 19.00

On view: July 17 - September 19, 2021

Opening hours: 12:00 - 20:00, Tuesday through Sunday

 

CCI Fabrika, 18, Perevedenovsky side-street, Moscow, 105082, Russia,

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Two performances will take place at the opening:

Sonia Kazovsky, “ACT V - REPRODUCTION" , an impromptu collective reading of an excerpt from the play “The Battle of Dead and Non-Existent Souls”. The performance is facilitated by actress Natalya Fenkina and open for audience participation.

 

Natalya Nikulenkova, "Captured Bodies", a performance based on personal stories and diaries of inmates of a youth detention center

 

 

Featuring work by:

Petra Bauer and Rebecka Katz Thor

Olesya Bessmeltseva and Philipp Venghaus

Sarah Browne

Nika Dubrovsky and The Yes Women

Masha Godovannaya

Alevtina Kakhidze

Sonia Kazovsky

Ofri Lapid

Natalia Nikulenkova

Polina Zaslavskaya

 

In 1909, Soviet feminist and politician Alexandra Kollontai penned The Social Basis of the Women’s Question, a book offering progressive systemic solutions to ensure women’s economic and political independence through labor legislation, sexual education, and free love—principles later adopted by many social democracies. More than a century later, however, the global struggle for women’s equality continues in the face of uneven justice systems.

Voicing the Silence is an exhibition project addressing issues of gender equality in the home, on the legislative level, and in professional spheres such as the field of art. The project responds to the current conservative turn that has empowered patriarchal systems in many societies today. In recent years, legislative initiatives aimed at limiting women’s rights have been numerous: decriminalization of domestic violence in Russia, Turkey’s Istanbul Convention exit, and new laws restricting abortion in the USA and Poland. All of this exacerbates women’s existing economic vulnerability resulting from unequal pay and labor conditions in most countries, and demonstrates how governments systematically deny women their basic rights of agency and protection.

The exhibition, along with accompanying public programs, amplifies the positions of Russian and international artists, who contribute to the global feminist agenda through art. Voicing the Silence showcases ways of challenging social and gender norms, unveils state mechanisms that control women’s rights and reproductive decisions, and addresses feminist movements across different countries and historical contexts. The audiences will also be invited to subvert established art history narratives and focus on female artists, whose positions have been overshadowed or instrumentalized.

 

 

Voicing the Silence is an apexart International Open Call exhibition. 

apexart is a non-profit arts organization in New York City founded in 1994, challenging ideas about culture and art through exhibitions, fellowships, publications, and Open Calls that annually engage 2,000+ submitters and jurors from 65+ countries. In 2020-2021 TOK was one of the four apexart international Open Call winners among 400 applicants from 76 countries. Voicing the Silence is the first apexart exhibition in Russia.