Knowledge Programme
Talk About #1 - Seeing Gender+info
July 9 / 21h
The curatorial practice and all the ethics
inherent in it (recalling here the great
difference between ethics and morality)
can no longer be hidden behind the fallacy
“I do not see gender”. It is common to
say that one does not think of the genre
of the artist when one looks at a work of
art. But it’s necessary to recognize that a
work of art is always the result of a series
of social processes that are invisible at
the moment we contemplate it. Before
an artwork is exhibited in a gallery, in a
museum, or in an art history book, it has
gone through a set of instances of social
exclusion and legitimation in which
gender categories operate systemically
(in Contemporânea magazine Gender
(in)visibilities: feminist practices in
contemporary artistic production,
March 2017, by Ana Cristina Cachola,
Daniela Agostinho and Joana Mayer).