Mimosa House presents the third chapter of transfeminisms, a major survey touring exhibition, that brings to light a multiplicity of urgent, pressing and ongoing issues faced by women, queer and trans people across the globe. The third chapter will feature works by Victoria Cantons, Elsa James, Yuki Kihara, Myriam Omar Awadi, Irene Antonia Diane Reece and Agnes Questionmark.
Victoria Cantons, A (transgender?) child (detail), 2024. Courtesy of the artist.
Fragile Archives explores the survival of histories and narratives in non-institutional archives or embodied forms and practices. These range from personal, family, or community archives to painting, photography, written text, voice, and performance. The artists in this chapter investigate the origins and transformation of self and methods of archiving, challenging dominant and singular historical narratives and common assumptions about gender and identity.
Unfolding over five chapters, transfeminisms outlines strategies of resistance through propositions of collective action, care and radical imagination, in order to generate a more equitable future. The exhibition explores the lineage of feminist art practices by facilitating dialogue between emerging and more established artists.
The title transfeminisms is deliberately provocative. The prefix “trans” implies ‘across, beyond, through, on the other side of’; while the ‘s’ in ‘feminisms’ recognises the innumerable definitions of feminism worldwide. Our intention is for transfeminisms to be understood within an inclusive and decolonial context – one that takes us across feminisms and encompasses various ‘trans’ possibilities, such as: transcultural, transcontinental, transgender, transformative, transgressive, transitory, translucent, transparent, transaction, translation, transfusion, transmission, transmutation.
The exhibition is curated by Christine Eyene, Daria Khan, Jennifer McCabe and Maura Reilly. It will be on view from the 5th of July until the 17th of August, 2024. For more information, please visit Mimosa House.
