Exhibition: Guerrilla Girls – Grafica – 1985-2017

30.10.2017

Guerrilla Girls – Grafica – 1985-2017 – at MASP, Sao Paulo – 29.09.2017-14.02.2018

The Guerrilla Girls are feminist activist artists. They wear gorilla masks in public and use facts, humor and outrageous visuals to expose gender and ethnic bias as well as corruption in politics, art, film, and pop culture. Their anonymity keeps the focus on the issues, and away from who they might be: they could be anyone and be anywhere. They believe in an intersectional feminism that fights discrimination and supports human rights for all people and all genders. They undermine the idea of a mainstream narrative by revealing the understory, the subtext, the overlooked, and the downright unfair. They have done hundreds of projects (posters, actions, books, videos, sickers) all over the world, including Bilbao, Iceland, Istanbul, London, Los Angeles, Mexico City, New York, Rotterdam, Sao Paulo, and Shanghai. They also do interventions and exhibitions at museums, blasting them on their own walls for their bad behavior and discriminatory practices, including their 2015 stealth projection on the facade of the Whitney Museum about income inequality and the super rich hijacking art. Their retrospectives in Bilbao and Madrid, and their US traveling exhibition, “Guerrilla Girls: Not ready to make Nice”, have attracted thousands. For 2016 they produced new street and museum projects at Tate Modern and Whitechapel Gallery, London; and in Paris, Cologne and Minneapolis. In 2017, They have new Projects and exhibitions at MASP, Sao Paulo; the Frestas Triennial, Sorocaba; The Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam; The Museum of Military History, Dresden; and many other places. What’s next: More creative complaining!! More interventions!! More resistance!!

1985, Poster, 43x56cm