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Working obliquely with the legacy of women artists, Nadia Hebson’s work has sought to comprehend the relationship between painting, biography, persona and clothing, most recently through a consideration of the work of both Winifred Knights b.1899 d.1947 and Christina Ramberg b.1946 d.1995. Having previously adopted a form of ‘subjective biography’ to comprehend the expanded legacy of Winifred Knights, (and taking her cue from Christa Wolf’s The Quest for Christa T.) the exhibition can you forgive her? draws on a similarly digressive process to examine the work of the painter, Christina Ramberg. As with Knights, in Ramberg’s paintings clothing becomes a site for a nuanced exploration of the complexities of feminine experience. Concerned with how the resonance and comprehension of the work has shifted since its first reception and aware that Ramberg resisted any feminist reading relative to her work, Hebson is interested in the implications of this position and the climate that accompanied it. How can an appropriate and responsive form be given to a lineage of female painters and their relevant concerns? For Hebson, Ramberg and Knights serve to activate an alternative history of significant yet critically under-recognised twentieth century painters, whose complex work is only beginning to be comprehended.
Artist(s): Hebson N
Publication type: Exhibition
Publication status: Published
Year: 2015
Number of Pieces: 20
Venue: Drop City
Location: Newcastle
Media of Output: paintings, objects, text, photography
URL: http://drop-city.net/exhibitions/can-you-forgive-her/
Notes: This exhibition was reviewed in international magazine, Frieze, Soobramanien, N; March 2015, issue 169, http://frieze.com/article/nadia-hebson This exhibition further developed work made during the Arts Council funded research project as outlined in the previous exhibition description. Over the period of research and making a sizeable body of work was made and this new version of the exhibition brought together elements shown in Vienna with new elements made in response to the Viennese iteration of the show. A further outcome of the period of research was the establishing of a discursive reading group, whose contributors include, academics, artists, theatre directors, PhD candidates and undergraduate students, we meet bi monthly to discuss, text, prose and film that explores the subjective female voice. The work was also explored in a paper called Baggage Reclaim, in the peer reviewed Journal of Contemporary Painting: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/jcp/2015/00000001/00000001
