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1. Capturing Chrysalis - gender, sexuality and identity through the lens of Diana Blok.
Matahari, Kors van Bennekom from the series Adventures in Cross-Casting (1996), Diana Blok
The Bite and The Huntress from the series Invisible Forces (1979-1982), Diana Blok and Marlo Broekmans
"I Challenge You To Love Me", artist and photographer Diana Blok’s retrospective exhibition concludes in Amsterdam.
Exerpt from online article:
“He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life”, proclaims Virginia Woolf’s androgynous time-travelling protagonist in the eponymously-titled Orlando (1928). Stepping into I Challenge You to Love Me, the provocatively-titled retrospective exhibition of artist and photographer Diana Blok (b. Uruguay, 1952), Orlando’s joie de vivre, shifting gender scripts and sharp wit surges through the portraits, stills and landscapes wired into the gallery walls. The exhibition, curated by Blok along with Hripsime Visser, former photography curator of the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, traces fifty years of rattling gender norms and expectations, and to communicate contemporary topics of gender violence, women’s rights, sexual identity and racial discrimination.
Posted on:
02/10/2024
Author:
Maggie Kuzan
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