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Candice Lin, Seeping, Rotting, Resting, Weeping, exhibition view from Walker Art
Center, Minneapolis, 2021. Courtesy the Artist; François Ghebaly Gallery

Agnes Denes, Lillian Schwartz, and Ulla Wiggen, for artists such as Bronwyn Katz, Sable Elyse Smith,
instance, or the screen-like surfaces by Dadamaino, Amy Sillman, and Charline von Heyl, while Jacqueline
Laura Grisi, and Grazia Varisco, collected in a second Humphries’ typographic paintings are juxtaposed
historical presentation that explores Programmed with Carla Accardi’s graphemes and with the
Art and kinetic abstraction in the 1960s. machine code that informs the art of Charlotte
Johannesson, Vera Molnár, and Rosemarie Trockel.
The bonds between body and language are
at the heart of another capsule inspired by In contrast with these hypertechnological scenarios,
Materializzazione del linguaggio, a showcase of the paintings and assemblages by Paula Rego and
Visual and Concrete Poetry at Biennale Arte 1978 Cecilia Vicuña envision new forms of symbiosis
that was one of the first openly feminist exhibitions between animals and human beings, while
in the institution’s history. Visual and concrete Merikokeb Berhanu, Mrinalini Mukherjee, Simone
poems by Mirella Bentivoglio, Tomaso Binga, Ilse Fattal, and Alexandra Pirici craft narratives that
Garnier, Giovanna Sandri, and Mary Ellen Solt are interweave environmental concerns with ancient
juxtaposed here with experiments in automatic chthonic deities, yielding innovative ecofeminist
writing and mediumistic communication by mythologies.
Eusapia Palladino, Georgiana Houghton, and Josefa
Tolrà, and other forms of “feminine writing” that The exhibition at the Arsenale opens with the
range from Gisèle Prassinos’s tapestries to Unica work of Belkis Ayón, an artist whose work draws
Zürn’s micrographies. Signs, symbols, and private on Afro-Cuban traditions to describe an imaginary
languages also crop up in the work of contemporary matriarchal society.

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