Deze week zag ik het werk van de Egyptische en islamitische Ghada Amer, abstracte schilderijen met daar overheen borduurwerk van erotische taferelen. Ghada Amer vertelt in een interview:

"I think the language of painting is a language invented by men. It is not a critique, I love painting! Female artists have been taught art history and the construction of the 'tableau' which is a totally masculine vision and that is ok, but we (women) have to be conscious about it. This is someting I am very sensitive to and wanted to reconstruct. I did this first by using images from pornographic magazines invented by men, for men. I wanted to re-present the woman within a medium that was identifiably female in order to empower the images (what I call double-submission) and liberate them through the power of seduction."

Ghada Amer's werk is t/m 19 mei te zien in De Appel (English site here) in Amsterdam.