Citra Sasmita: Ode to the Sun

Watch the recorded webinar here This talk aims to shed light on the neglected and rarely acknowledged issue of marginalised women’s art practice in a male-dominated contemporary art environment in Southeast Asia and the strategies used by contemporary women artists, past and present, to nurture female empowerment, gain an audience for feminist art practice in SEA where there had been none and gain inclusion to national discourses by establishing a counter-discourse to the authorised national art histories. The need by marginalised women artists to negotiate a masculinised contemporary art...