The exhibition No more bad girls? opens up perspectives on contemporary women's art praxis. These female artists no longer exclusively reflect on gender binarisms, but rather at the same time also reveal multiple identity categories such as life situations of migrants, social status, sexual orientation, religious affiliation or ethnic origin.
With a critical awareness of a hegemonic, white, canonic feminism, the exhibition uncovers alternative cartographies of a deconstruction of culturally-informed stereotypes of femininity which refer to heterogeneous and complex spatial contexts as "locational affinities".
The exhibition is accompanied by a booklet and a full-color catalog, both edited by Kathrin Becker, PhD and Claudia Marion Stemberger, PhD, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, 2010, ISBN 978-3-200-01861-7:
"Janich stages the relation of mother and daughter as a cross between fetish and rival; she achieves this by placing herself in the picture instead of the mother figure." (Claudia M. Stemberger, Productive Risk: Ethnicity and Gender as Contingent Categories)
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