• Jochen Lempert at Science/Fiction — A Non-History of Plants

    16 October 2024 — 19 January 2025

    GROUP SHOW: MEP, PARIS. FRANCE

    In development since 2020, the exhibition Science/Fiction — A Non-History of Plants retraces the visual history of plants through art, technology, and science from the nineteenth century to the present day. Bringing together over 40 artists from different periods and nationalities, this exhibition juxtaposes historic photographic works such as Anna Atkins’ cyanotypes, Karl Blossfeldt’s inventory of plant forms and Laure Albin Guillot’s microscope experiments with creations by contemporary artists such as Jochen Lempert, Pierre Joseph, Angelica Mesiti, Agnieszka Polska, and Sam Falls.

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  • Ana Jotta: On peut…On peut encore…

    6 September 2024 — 5 January 2025

    SOLO SHOW: WIELS, BRUSSELS, BELGIUM

    Over the course of the past five decades, Ana Jotta (1946, Lisbon) has developed a deeply personal artistic vocabulary that rejects and even antagonizes all forms of classification and identification. Instead of any recognizable style, she takes from, subverts, and trespasses across various aesthetic categories, making a world that exists only on her own terms. Instead of attempting to encompass Jotta’s entire practice, the exhibition narrows its focus around a specific aspect of her work: the expanded sense she brings to the act of drawing.

    Curators: Anthony Huberman and Miguel Wandschneider

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  • LUCE at Confluences. Between the archive and the intervention

    27 June — 3 November 2024

    GROUP SHOW: IVAM, VALENCIA, SPAIN

    Confluences. Between the archive and the intervention is an exhibition proposal that accounts, archives and updates what has happened since 2021 in various locations with less than one hundred inhabitants in the Valencian Community within the Confluències program. Likewise, it shows twelve new interventions and pieces by the team of artists generated specifically for the IVAM G7.

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  • CNIO Art 2024. Dora García, End (two prologues)

    17 June — 21 October 2024

    GUEST WORK AT MUSEO NACIONAL THYSSEN-BORNEMISZA, MADRID. SPAIN

    End (two prologues) is the work commissioned from Dora García by the CNIO for its seventh edition. The artist has chosen one of her most recurrent mediums, film, but also writing and performance, all of them as devices that seek to position us as critical and aware spectators before that abyss of time established by sound and visual realities so far away—but strangely connected—in their political and poetic transmission” (Juan de Nieves, curator of CNIO Art).

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  • Ana Jotta: Composição

    8 June — 15 September 2024

    SOLO SHOW: KUNSTHALLE ZÜRICH, SWITZERLAND

    The exhibition title Composição (Composition), borrowed from one of the works, neither alludes to nor comments on the artist’s practice; it refers instead to the exhibition itself as a construct in the double sense of a process and an outcome. Rather than adopting a certain framework of reference or point of view when selecting the artworks, one basic rule was followed: to choose an artwork and thus set in motion a process of association between works that enhances an understanding of the artist’s work, providing insight into the intricacies of her practice and the idiosyncrasy of her subjective world. It was an intuitive and open-ended heuristic process with neither map nor compass.

    Curator: Miguel Wandschneider

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  • Dora García at untranquil now: a constellation of narratives and resonances

    31 May 2024 — 19 January 2025

    GROUP SHOW: HAMBURGER KUNSTHALLE, HAMBURG, GERMANY

    With untranquil now, attention is focused on artworks, artefacts, performances, figures and events, that authorize complexity, in which bodies and modes of perception become the agents of contradictory states and troubled histories. Doing so, they disarm configurations of power, unlocking imagination to explore heterogeneous narratives. These artistic and performative gestures bank on a creative breakthrough of the world.

    Being transdisciplinary, the exhibition and performance & film program present artworks that explore forms of displacement of stage, to become modernist building, social housing, roof, public place, park, abandoned site, archaeological excavation, industrial platform, and the presence of human or animal characters.

    Curator: Corinne Diserens

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  • Patricia Dauder and Xavier Ribas at Horizonte y Límite. Visiones del Paisaje.

    1 May — 1 September 2024

    GROUP SHOW: CAIXAFORUM, BARCELONA. SPAIN

    In European culture, landscape began to be valued as a pictorial genre in the 17th century and reached its maximum expression in the 19th century, from Romanticism to Impressionism. Nowadays, the natural landscape has returned to the limelight due to the possibilities of fabulation that digital technology allows, as well as the concern generated by the deterioration of nature and the environmental threat of climate change. If in the beginning the landscape allowed us to dream with the idea of paradise and gave shape to unknown or remote places, today it is again relevant in art with the hybridization of images and the possibility of creating new fictions.

    The title, “Horizon and limit”, wants to emphasize the way we perceive the territory. Faced with the immensity of the world, the human being can only learn it by framing the gaze and representing what, in the end, is an illusion. The exhibition is divided into thematic sections that address the fiction of the landscape, the perception and experience of the landscape, as well as the human impact on nature.

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  • Dora García: La Eterna

    30 April — 31 July 2024

    SOLO SHOW: FONDAZIONE BARUCHELLO, ROMA

    Curator: Carla Subrizi

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  • Patricia Dauder: Unform

    26 April — 29 September 2024

    SOLO SHOW: ARTIUM MUSEOA, VITORIA-GASTEIZ, SPAIN

    The exhibition Unform, dedicated to the work of Patricia Dauder (Barcelona, 1973), brings together sculptures, drawings, installations and films that, as a whole, explore the artist’s interest in tracking affective moments that often leave almost unnoticeable traces. The exhibition also demonstrates her focus on the passage of time through the use of techniques such as accumulation and erasure. In this way, often using found objects, Dauder’s works evoke the potential stories enclosed in objects and spaces of which only tracks and traces remain.

    Curator: Catalina Lozano

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  • LUCE at Scene I. Making landscape

    15 February — 19 May 2024

    GROUP SHOW: IVAM, VALENCIA. SPAIN

    In February 2024, the IVAM turns 35 years old. For this reason, we are starting a series of exhibits that under the heading of Scenes from the IVAM Collection will show space-time combinations of our collections, in the form of assemblies that will allow us to know the multiple meanings of the works and documents that make up the IVAM collection. A scene is a moment in time, an articulation of different situations; a scene is constructed, transformed and disappears. This is how we understand the work with the IVAM collection, a work of construction, reconstruction and memory, with what is there and what is missing, in constant transformation. Along with other more global readings of the collection, in this case it would be about showing various threads of meaning based on specific works.

    Curators: Nuria Enguita and Sonia Martínez

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  • Dora García participates at “Lacan, l’exposition”

    31 December 2023 — 27 May 2024

    GROUP SHOW: CENTRE POMPIDOU-METZ, METZ, FRANCE

    The ideas of Jacques Lacan are, alongside the work of Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida and Gilles Deleuze, essential for understanding our modernity. While homages and exhibitions have already been dedicated to these intellectual figures, the thought of Lacan has not been dealt with in museums to date, even though he was strongly attached to works of art.

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  • Gilda Mantilla & Raimond Chaves at Bienalsur. “Between Us and the Others: Together Apart”

    1 December 2023 — 9 February 2024

    GROUP SHOW: CASA DE AMÉRICA, MADRID, SPAIN

    The intersection of symbolic expressions and contemporary migration issues has been the meeting ground for BIENALSUR and Together Apart since 2017. These initiatives challenge unidirectional thinking and introduce a decolonial critique through the lens of human mobility. Based in Cúcuta, Colombia, the main city on the Colombian-Venezuelan border, this project serves not only as a permanent observatory but also as a central hub for dialogue that enriches the nature and identity of the city and the region. Both initiatives are actively engaged in the global map of cultural and knowledge transactions, contributing to discussions on the dynamics between the center and the periphery.

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  • Patricia Dauder and Xavier Ribas at “Horizonte y límite, visiones del paisaje”

    30 November 2023 — 31 March 2024

    GROUP SHOW: CAIXAFORUM, MADRID

    In European culture, landscape began to be valued as a pictorial genre in the 17th century and reached its maximum expression in the 19th century, from Romanticism to Impressionism. Nowadays, the natural landscape has returned to the limelight due to the possibilities of fabulation that digital technology allows, as well as the concern generated by the deterioration of nature and the environmental threat of climate change. If in the beginning the landscape allowed us to dream with the idea of paradise and gave shape to unknown or remote places, today it is again relevant in art with the hybridization of images and the possibility of creating new fictions.

    The title, “Horizon and limit”, wants to emphasize the way we perceive the territory. Faced with the immensity of the world, the human being can only learn it by framing the gaze and representing what, in the end, is an illusion. The exhibition is divided into thematic sections that address the fiction of the landscape, the perception and experience of the landscape, as well as the human impact on nature.

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  • Dora García participates at “READ”

    16 November 2023 — 22 April 2024

    GROUP SHOW: KUNSTHALLE PRAHA, PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC

    For their first major exhibition in Czechia, Elmgreen & Dragset present their own work alongside artworks by sixty artists. Encompassing various decades, geographic regions, and artistic movements, many of these works have been selected from Kunsthalle Praha’s Collection, while other artists have been personally invited by the duo to participate. The sprawling exhibition READ focuses on the historic and enduring relevance of books. Designed as a minimalist version of a contemporary public library, it also questions our relationship with books as physical objects and knowledge in the age of digital media. The title not only encourages reading, but also learning and understanding, as in to “read the signs,” “read a situation,” and “read the room.”

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  • Jochen Lempert: Honeyguides and Milk Teeth

    12 November 2023 — 17 March 2024

    SOLO SHOW: MACS GRAND HORNU, BELGIUM

    For his first museum exhibition in Belgium, the German photographer Jochen Lempert has taken over four rooms at the MACS with his delicate photographs of nature. When faced with the poetic intensity of each individual photograph, we are initially struck by the simplicity of the means that are used, such as the 35 mm camera with a normal focal length, the home-made, black-and-white prints, the various formats of baryta paper that the artist places against the white background of the walls without any frames, or even the simple photograms of plants or animals. The evocative illustrative power of the sequences of photographs, depending on how they are arranged, demonstrates a great mastery of composition and installation. These constellations of images, some of which are presented in showcases, form a body of work that invites both contemplation and interpretation, through an inexhaustible web of connections generated by the similarities or contrasts of shapes, tones and subjects.

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  • Patricia Dauder participates at “El árbol de lo que aún no sabes”

    25 October 2023 — 11 February 2024

    Group show: CaixaForum, Barcelona

    Una invitación a descubrir la Colección de Arte Contemporáneo Fundación ”la Caixa” como un diálogo en el que las artistas se miran, se preguntan, interpelan y aprenden las unas de las otras.

    Comisariada por Caterina Almirall, la exposición se enmarca en el programa Apoyo a la Creación’22. Comisart, y se concibe como un conjunto que alega ser juntas para hacer arte, porque, más allá de las aportaciones individuales, trabajar significa compartir.

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  • Dora García at “La ocupación. Carta blanca a Cabello/Carceller”

    7 October 2023 — 10 March 2024

    GROUP SHOW: PATIO HERRERIANO, VALLADOLID, SPAIN

    “The Occupation” is conceived as an invasive journey that crosses the halls of the Patio Herreriano Museum in different thematic and spatio-temporal directions. The title emphasizes the transitory condition of our stay and refers to a libertarian poetics of resistance that recognizes itself as fragile; although willing and needing to intervene in its present. Ours is a practice that is nourished by the urgency to rethink the place occupied by our bodies and to redefine their presence in a common space that they will have to compose for themselves. This recognition has led us to embark on a journey with no apparent destination during which we have not hesitated to look ahead and experiment with the multiple possibilities that artistic practice offers.

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  • LUCE participates at Festival Circular

    2—15 October 2023

    Group show: San Cristóbal, Villaverde, Madrid

    Circular is an art festival which produces artistic interventions in the public space, created with recycled and found materials; these interventions are easily associated to street-art but at the same time want to stay way from how street-art is mainly conceived nowadays, where big murals have a dominant role. Circular aims to help to revert the process which has taken street-art far from human scale and somehow take it back there. Besides, by promoting the use of found materials for the interventions, we launch the debate about a second life for objects, responsible consumption and leveraging of resources, focusing on sustainability, recycling and the role of people in our cities.

    The neighborhood of San Cristóbal de los Ángeles, in Villaverde, hosted all the activity of the two editions of the festival. By taking Circular to this area, we wanted to contribute to cultural decentralization and democratization of art in Madrid city, taking art to all kinds of audiences.

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  • Dora García: Romeos, luchadorxs e insecto

    22 September 2023 — 7 January 2024

    SOLO SHOW: ES BALUARD, PALMA DE MALLORCA, SPAIN

    “Romeos, Luchadorxs e insecto” is both a compendium and a synthesis of Dora García’s artistic practices, displayed via four projects that propose to the spectator a repositioning regarding history, social conduct and the function of a museum.

    This repositioning fits within the artist’s usual modus operandi: to explore the mechanisms involved in the relationship between artist, work and public. It is the latter who, by adopting a certain point of view, conditions the relations of meaning between the works themselves and their relation with the institution that hosts them, in this case, the museum. In order to generate this assemblage of relations, García uses media such as performance, photography, text and drawing.

    Curator: Pilar Rubí

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  • Xavier Ribas at Image Ecology

    16 September 2023 — 18 January 2024

    GROUP SHOW: C/o, BERLIN, GERMANY

    The group exhibition Image Ecology presents a global cross-section of twelve contemporary artistic responses in the form of photographs, video works, and installations. The artists employ experimental and traditional production methods, historical processes, as well as new technologies. The exhibition lays out the stages of the metabolic process in four thematically linked parts—Energy, Material, Labor, and Waste, ending by returning to the start with Energy.

    Curated by Boaz Levin and Kathrin Schönegg

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  • Gilda Mantilla & Raimond Chaves at TEA (Tenerife Espacio de las Artes)

    29 September 2023 — 25 February 2024

    GROUP SHOW: TEA, Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Tenerife, Spain

    TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes opens on Friday, September 29, at 6:30 p.m., Insolación, curated by Gilberto Gonzalez, artistic director of TEA. The exhibition, which is free admission, can be visited in this art center until February 25, from Tuesday to Sunday, from 10:00 to 20:00 hours.

    Insolación, the progressive increase in the temperature of an organism due to its exposure to the sun’s rays, serves as a starting point to talk about characters marked by the maladjustment to their environment, difficult to classify, but also of an uncontrolled exuberance.

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  • Pieter Vermeersch at Palazzo Borromeo

    27 September — 12 January 2023

    SOLO SHOW: Palazzo Borromeo, Antonini Milano, Italy

    SEPTEMBER 27, 2023 – JANUARY 12, 2024
    Opening Tuesday September 26, 6 – 8.30 pm
    Solo exhibition Palazzo Borromeo, Antonini Milano, Piazza Borromeo 12, 20123 Milan, Italy

    Open by appointment Tuesday – Friday / 10 am – 1pm, 2 – 6 pm: events@antonini.it

     

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  • Dora García, “Romeos, luchadorxs e insecto” at EsBaluard Museu d’Art Contemporani

    22 September 2023 — 4 February 2024

    SOLO SHOW: ESBALUARD, MALLORCA, SPAIN

    “Romeos, Luchadorxs e insecto” is both a compendium and a synthesis of Dora García’s artistic practices, displayed via four projects that propose to the spectator a repositioning regarding history, social conduct and the function of a museum.

    This repositioning fits within the artist’s usual modus operandi: to explore the mechanisms involved in the relationship between artist, work and public. It is the latter who, by adopting a certain point of view, conditions the relations of meaning between the works themselves and their relation with the institution that hosts them, in this case, the museum. In order to generate this assemblage of relations, García uses media such as performance, photography, text and drawing.

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  • Ana Jotta: “Never The Less” at CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts

    7 September — 11 November 2023

    SOLO SHOW: CCA WATTIS INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA USA

    Over the course of the past five decades, the Portuguese artist Ana Jotta has developed a deeply personal artistic vocabulary that rejects and even antagonizes all forms of classification and identification. Instead of any recognizable style, she argues in favor of inconsistency and irreverence. She takes from, subverts, and trespasses across all aesthetic categories, making a world that exists only on her own terms. Drawn to collecting the most unclassifiable images, objects, phrases, or even marks on a wall, her acts of gathering are fully enmeshed within her acts of making, and as she extracts from what she experiences in the world, she puts the pieces back together in an order that is entirely her own.

    Instead of attempting to encompass Jottas entire practice, this exhibition narrows its focus around a specific aspect of her work and uses it as a lens to reflect on her approach more broadly: the expanded sense she brings to the act of drawingdrawing on, drawing out, drawing in, drawing from.

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  • Jochen Lempert participates at “Ocular Witness: The Whole Hog”

    23 August — 5 November 2023

    GROUP SHOW: SPRENGEL MUSEUM, HANNOVER, GERMANY

    Humans and pigs – what kind of relationship do they have? More similar in genetic make-up than we think, pigs are intelligent, playful and – like us – omnivorous. But our relationship is anything but on an equal footing. There’s no doubting that we humans dictate how and where pigs live. But what are we doing to ourselves and our environment with an industry that produces meat with production-line methods? OCULAR WITNESS: THE WHOLE HOG takes the pig-human relationship as an opportunity to reflect on our relations with ourselves, with pigs and with the world. What does the global meat industry mean for lifestyles in rural regions? What is the real price of our pork chop, roast or sausage? And is it possible to use the means of art to address social and political issues that are as concrete as they are complex and to put them up for discussion?

    The exhibition brings together artists who explore these issues. All of them – biologists, sociologists, bee educators, chefs, shop assistants, etc. – bring their specialist knowledge to the table.

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  • Dora García participates at “Machinations”

    21 June — 28 August 2023

    GROUP SHOW: MUSEO NACIONAL CENTRO DE ARTE REINA SOFÍA, MADRID, SPAIN

    In the thinking of Félix Guattari and Gilles Deleuze, the idea of the machine undergoes a paradigm shift with respect to Marxist analyses of the industrial society. Until that point, it had been regarded merely as a technical instrument which alienated the individual, turning them into one more piece of machinery in capitalist production. After 1968, this judgement was reformulated into an abstract nucleus capable of containing infinite human and non-human relations. (…) Therefore, the primordial role of the machine is “to machinate”; namely, to conspire against established power, to imagine new possible assemblages [agencements], to invent the necessary means for radical transformation.

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  • Pieter Vermeersch at Everybody Talks About the Weather

    20 May — 26 November 2023

    GROUP SHOW: FONDAZIONE PRADA, MILAN, ITALY

    “Everybody Talks About the Weather” is a research exhibition exploring the semantics of “weather” in visual art, taking atmospheric conditions as a point of departure to investigate the emergency of climate crisis

    The project is conceived by curator Dieter Roelstraete for the historic palazzo of Ca’ Corner della Regina, Fondazione Prada’s Venetian venue. More than fifty works by contemporary artists and a complementary selection of historical artworks trace the various ways in which climate and weather have shaped our histories and how humanity has dealt with our everyday exposure to meteorological events. The exhibition design created by New York-based studio 2×4 entwines the artistic dimension of the project with a series of in-depth scientific spotlights developed in collaboration with The New Institute Centre For Environmental Humanities (NICHE) at Ca’ Foscari University in Venice.

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  • Jochen Lempert: Lingering Sensations

    13—7 May 2023

    SOLO SHOW: C/O BERLIN, BERLIN

    The exhibition Jochen Lempert . Lingering Sensations at C/O Berlin is the artist’s first institutional exhibition in Berlin. Three sections organized by topic include wall-mounted works and works presented in display cases. They explore the parameters of the artist’s work, from the 1990s to today. The display includes a visual biography which uses invitations, posters, and other printed matter designed by the artist to tell the story of how this exciting, internationally singular body of work has developed. Curated by Dr. Kathrin Schönegg, C/O Berlin Foundation.

    The exhibition is accompanied by an extensive artist book published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König.

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  • Jochen Lempert participates at Parliament of Plants II

    4 May — 22 October 2023

    GROUP SHOW: KUNSTMUSEUM LIECHTENSTEIN, LIECHTENSTEIN

    With its Parliament of Plants exhibition in 2020–21, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein spotlighted a set of momentous issues facing current society. Parliament of Plants II continues this discussion.

    The exhibition Parliament of Plants II gives a voice to plants. It testifies to a new view of these beings, which are inextricably linked with our own survival. Over the past decades, a paradigm shift has been taking place in the sciences regarding our perception of plants, one that is also reflected in the exhibition’s artworks. Following on from Parliament of Plants (2020–21), the show develops a network of cooperations in a range of different disciplines, with guest contributions in the form of ‘inserts’.

    Parliament of Plants II demonstrates the principle of symbiosis as a societal counter-image to the parasitic handling of nature. New insights regarding the world of plants feature alongside the knowledge of Indigenous cultures, questions pertaining to colonial and contemporary history, the handling of resources or our perception of time. The crucial question is: how can we achieve a symbiotic coexistence in which human and non-human beings can learn from each other?

    ARTISTS:

    Polly Apfelbaum, Ursula Biemann, Anna Hilti, Alevtina Kakhidze, Jochen Lempert, Rivane Neuenschwander & Mariana Lacerda, Uriel Orlow, Silke Schatz, Thomas Struth, Athena Vida, Miki Yui, Zheng Bo.

     

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  • Dora García: “She has many names” at Muhka

    10 February — 21 May 2023

    SOLO SHOW: MUHKA, ANTWERP

    The exhibition She Has Many Names by Spanish artist Dora García surveys some of the most important performances, drawings, installations, printed matter and films created throughout a career spanning three decades.

    Dora García’s practice relates to community and individuality in contemporary society, exploring the political potential of marginal positions, and paying homage to eccentric characters and antiheroes. These characters have often been the centre of her film projects, such as The Joycean Society (2013), Segunda Vez (2018) and Amor Rojo (2023). An essential aspect of García’s work is entanglement with political movements such as feminism, and the ways they occupy public spaces.

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