H13 2019: Helena Eribenne
© Sandro E. E. Zanzinger
Helena Eribenne: Woman to Woman II
"How can a serious commitment to diversity in cultural institutions look like? What roles are assigned to artists on the basis of their race, and what expectations are placed on their artistic work? Helena Eribenne addresses these questions in the performance Woman to Woman II, in which she reflects and questions the conditions of visibility in the art field: In the award-winning project [...] she enters into a fictitious dialogue with her female, institutional counterpart, a white curator, which is accompanied musically with reference to Shirley Brown’s song ‘Woman to Woman’ (1974).[...] Helena Eribenne’s performance at the Kunstraum Niederoesterreich promises a productive throwback to the 1970s to question the relevant intersectional mechanisms of exclusion in the art world today."
Born in London, Helena Eribenne has been an integral part of the Viennese art scene for many years. Her works are located at the interface between theatre, performance, film and photography and always stand in a socio-political context. For "Woman to Woman II" she transforms the exhibition space into a time machine to critically reflect on the contemporary representation and reception of female artists of color:
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