FLÂNEUSE featuring Martha Cooper, Alicia Eggert, Retha Ferguson, Laura Grace Ford, Roxane Huilmand, Cristina De Middel, Alicia Paz & Tuesday Smillie
FLÂNEUSE Exhibition Tour: Thursday, September 20th at 5:30pm
Join us at Fort Worth Contemporary Arts for an Exhibition Tour with TCU Art History professor, Jessica Fripp, and TCU Art Galleries Director and FLÂNEUSE curator, Sara-Jayne Parsons. Listen to them discuss the traditional definition of a flâneur and how the curatorial direction of the exhibition brings this idea into the 21st century.
FLÂNEUSE August 24 – September 29, 2018 at Fort Worth Contemporary Arts
Flâneuse is a group exhibition featuring eight international artists whose work draws attention to the role of gender in contemporary urban experience. Through a variety of media the artists explore a diverse array of concerns about street life. The overlapping themes they address include history, memory, social justice, personal safety, public protest, physical movement, and commodity culture. Taking the traditional idea of the “flâneur” as a point of departure, the exhibition highlights key themes from ongoing scholarly debate about the appropriateness or indeed the existence of the female equivalent, the “flaneuse.”
The nineteenth-century art critic Charles Baudelaire coined the term “flâneur” in his essay “The Painter of Modern Life.” A man with means and time enough to wander through city streets, without aim and without calling attention to himself, the flâneur was an urban explorer. Regarded as an aesthete and a literary figure, he was celebrated as a significant observer of contemporary life. Flânerie or idle strolling was made possible by male privilege and until recently scholars have mostly dismissed the idea of a flâneuse in the context of the nineteenth-century when it was indeed difficult for women to be in public spaces without a chaperone. If women were on the street alone they were likely considered poor or prostitutes.
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Fort Worth Contemporary Arts is one of two galleries that comprise The Art Galleries at TCU – Texas Christian University. Students and alumni of the TCU College of Fine Arts and guest artists exhibit at these galleries. Fort Worth Contemporary Arts is located at 2900 W. Berry St. located on the edge of TCU – Texas Christian University campus, Fort Worth, TX 76109.
Gallery Hours are Wednesday to Saturday, 12 - 5pm, and by appointment. Admission is free.
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