Carolee Schneemann, Eye Body #11, 1963/1989
Hales is delighted to announce Carolee Schneemann's solo exhibition, Body Politics at the Barbican Centre, opening 8th September 2022.
The first major survey of Carolee Schneemann's work in the UK, tracing her diverse, transgressive and interdisciplinary expression over six decades.
Schneemann was a radical artist who remains a feminist icon and point of reference for numerous contemporary artists to this day. Addressing urgent topics from sexual expression and the objectification of women to human suffering and the violence of war, her work is concerned with the precarious lived experience of humans and animals.
The exhibition will feature the artist's early paintings; her experimental sculptural assemblages and kinetic works; her pioneering performance work in which she used her own body as a medium; her ground-breaking group performances; as well as her lyrical films and immersive multi-media installations. With over 200 objects and rarely seen archival material, this exhibition positions Schneemann as one of the most relevant, provocative and inspiring artists of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
Carolee Schneemann
Body Politics
The Barbican Centre
Silk Street
London
EC2Y 8DS
8 September 2022 – 8 January 2023.
