#feministfriday episode 496 | Algiers
Good morning everyone,
How are you doing? Well, I hope. I promised an exhibition report on the Tate's Women in Revolt. Basically, it was about three exhibitions, each of which I could have been interested in individually but as a whole I wasn't sure it was drawing clear enough throughlines between the different rooms. Also, there was so much stuff to look at. Here is my highlight:
We start with Houria Niati's No to Torture (After Delacroix's 'Women of Algiers'). It's impossible to convey the scale of a canvas in a phone photo, but this one is huge and beautiful and absolutely worth seeing in real life:
Here's an interview with Houria Niati that talks quite a lot about this painting and its inspiration:
“It confronted France just as much as Delacroix himself. The women I presented were fighters, and they were repressed. It was bang in their face, they could not turn away”.
https://www.brainscanmag.com/houria-niatiLove,
Alex.