STATEMENT:La Voix des Femmes

While we all felt that we were entering a new era, beyond the Second-wave feminism of the 1960’s and 1970’s that  broadened and wo the debate to include a wider range of issues: sexuality, family, the workplace, reproductive rights, de facto inequalities, official legal inequalities, marital rape and art; beyond the era of Abstract Expressionism when Louise Bourgeois raised her fist disagreeing with the exclusion of blacks, gays and women from the movement (Abstract Expressionism: Other Politics (1999), Ann Eden Gibson, Yale University Press); however, on the occasion of a book by Libby Sellers that first met at the Book Store of George Pompidou Center, 4 months after its publication,  “La voix des femmes” (PYRAMYD 2018) which records, through the female gaze, the voices of women coming from the fields of art, architecture, cinema, design and graphic design, like: Eileen Gray, Lora Lamm και Lella Vignelli, as well as living forces like: Kazuyo Sejima, Hella Jongerius and Neri Oxman, where their life and work is showcased through excellent photography and a very good design. A book that I loved at the same time with all these that are happening around us every day-worldwide with rapes and violations of women’s rights at all levels, is more timely than ever. Through monumental, exemplary and groundbreaking projects by women coming from both the Metropolitan Centers and the Planet Region, through Prizes Institutions Awards, Awards and Recognitions from the Venice Biennale and the Pritzker Prize, Positions in Museums, Institutes, Foundation and Art Fairs; the book is raising a number of issues and concerns that seemed to belong to the past and have been permanently closed through the feminist movement and its struggles.– Efi Michalarou