PENNY SLINGER : A PHOTO ROMANCE

27 Sep-5 Nov 2011

Overview

'A Photo-Romance' focuses on the artist's photographic collages from the mid to late 1970s. In these seminal works, Slinger uses the tools provided by Surrealism to penetrate the feminine psyche, presenting herself as both subject and object in a group of collages and montages which sidestep the prevalent themes of 1960s and 70s contemporary art. Exhibited in London in 1977, the work's explicit depiction of 'feminine power' and its anarchic approach to life, both challenged and outraged many of her peers as well as the critics. The artist left Britain in 1979, never to return. 'A Photo-Romance' will be her first solo exhibition here for thirty-two years.