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"The Solemn Geography of Human Limits": Some Notes on Art, Space and Gender
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Using Michel Foucault's concept of heterotopia, this paper argues that art is essentially heterotopic. In particular, current forms of feminist installation art uniquely exercise and produce the kinds of reflections of the construction of lived space that characterize heterotopias. By looking at the recent art of Judy Pfaff, Jessica Stockholder, Louise Bourgeois and Eva Hesse, this paper focuses on the ways in which contemporary artistic practices explore and critique the gendered nature of contemporary spaces.
Space and place, spaces and places, and our senses of them (and such related things as our degrees of mobility) are gendered through and through. Moreover they are gendered …
