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DAVID&SCHWEITZER Contemporary is proud to announce the upcoming exhibition #PUSSYPOWER, a group show of more than forty women artists. #PUSSYPOWER is a show of women using explicit, body-based, and politically activist imagery, as well as more abstract interpretations of these themes.  The exhibition is designed to function as a large group statement of resistance and feminism.

The exhibition was inspired by seeing the work and words of women artists, in galleries and on social media, in the lead-up to Election Day, and after. For co-curator Jennifer Samet, it was inspiring and provided comfort to see work by women that dealt with the body, after a campaign filled with rhetoric of body-shaming and brags of sexual assault, and an election night that revealed the depths of misogyny. 

The exhibition is a reminder that visual art can play an essential role in ensuring that women鈥檚 issues, and women鈥檚 bodies (as imaged by women themselves), are not rendered invisible. The title of the exhibition was inspired by protest responses to Trump鈥檚 use of the word 鈥減ussy,鈥� in the context of sexually predatory behavior. At the October 鈥淧ussy Power Protest at Trump Tower,鈥� women wore feline-themed costumes, dressed as giant vulvas, created a human wall, and carried signs with slogans like 鈥淧ussy Grabs Back鈥� and 鈥淗ands off my Cuntry.鈥� It was a reclaiming of the language and imagery by women, which this exhibition is designed to echo and reflect. The announcement card image for the exhibition is a documentary photograph of the protest, by Brooklyn photographer Sai Mokhtari.

The exhibition will include work across the media of painting, photography, sculpture, audio and video work.