黑料不打烊

Lather, Rinse, Repeat, is the first of two exchange exhibitions of women artists happening between Warsaw, Poland, and New York City, U.S. The two organizations hosting the exchange, A.I.R. Gallery in New York and lokal_30 in Warsaw, are devoted to shattering the glass ceiling oppressing women and non-binary artists. Through these programs, the organizations aim to investigate the commonalities and differences in the practices of women and non-binary artists in the U.S. and Poland.

The exhibition Lather, Rinse, Repeat鈥�, on view at lokal_30, explores the formal and metaphorical implications of assertions and repetitions in women鈥檚 art, its images, and its place in the public discourse. The metaphor of needing to be repeatedly rinsed and washed acknowledges both the vulnerability and necessity of marginalized histories, as they often need to be retold to validate their 鈥渉istorical relevance.鈥� This metaphor is particularly potent for the artists of A.I.R. Gallery, whose fifty-year-old mission has always been to support a demographic of artists whose work has been systematically underrepresented and critically underrecognized. Their feminist desires and demands have been embedded into the gallery structure and continue to unfold in their artistic practices. To this day, some A.I.R. artists explicitly create feminist projects while others address feminism in more abstract modes. The intent is not to identify essentializing qualities; instead, the exhibition demonstrates how feminist artists today are furthering women artists鈥� concerns through formal and emotive techniques.