PERFECTION. utopia of women
ARTISTS:
Martinho DIAS (Portugal), Panait BOGDAN (Romania); Robert DOESBURG(Netherlands), REL aka Ariel ZACHOR (Netherlands), Josef FASTUS (Germany), Alejandro Hugo Dorda Mevs AXELVOID (United States of America), Jurgita GERLIKAITE (Lithuania), Katharina SCHIFFL (Austria), Becky BOSTON (United Kingdom), Anna MICHAILIDOU (Greece), Robert HUTINSKI (Slovenia), Marek JAROTTA (Slovakia), Roman STRIGA (Belarus), Bernadette Rowe MACCORMICK (Ireland), Hester JONES (United Kingdom), Manolis ANASTASAKOS (Greece), Djan SILVEBERG (Luxembourg), Graham BURQUEST (United Kingdom), Martin DINGLI (Unitetd States of America), Clarice GONÇALVES (Brazil), Lara ZANKOUL (Lebanon)
Curators: König Claudia, Stefanie Furch
Venue: MOYA, Renngasse 4, 1010 Wien, Austria & MOYAWORLD.COM (www.moyaworld.com)
opening: 3rd May 2011, 19:00
Duration: 4th – 10th May 2011
The exhibition „PERFECTION. utopia of women“, presented in the MOYA in Vienna, as well as on www.moyaworld.com - the global social network for contemporary art - shows artworks f 21 international artists. „PERFECTION. utopia of women“ is intended to present several artworks by selected contemporary artists, who pick up women-specific topics and in particular issues currently relevant to the idealized modern woman. In this context perfection means the social expectations women are faced with every day. So women are caught between their newly won individual freedom and the ideal image imposed by the society. As topic becomes more and more important, we have to ask what characterizes such an ideal modern woman and why professional success, independence, confidence, beauty and sexual emancipation correlate with the ideal of a loving and affectionate companion or mother. Perfection in all areas of life - norm or utopia? These requirements, these interactions of former and actual values are in reality nearly impossible to implement. The pressure to receive this illusion upright leads to inevitable internal conflicts. The aim of the exhibition is to highlight this tension by connecting different attributes of the ideal woman in order to achieve a direct confrontation and a self-contained activity of the viewer.
