Trigger - Gender As A Tool And A Weapon

The accompanying catalog for the New Museum's exhibition Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon investigates gender's place in contemporary art and culture today, putting special emphasis on our moment of political upheaval and renewed culture wars. The exhibition features over 40 artists working ac [...]
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The accompanying catalog for the New Museum's exhibition Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon investigates gender's place in contemporary art and culture today, putting special emphasis on our moment of political upheaval and renewed culture wars. The exhibition features over 40 artists working across a variety of mediums and genres, including film, video, performance, painting and sculpture. Many embrace explicit pleasure and visual lushness as political strategies, and some deliberately reject or complicate overt representation, turning to poetic language, docufiction and abstraction to affirm ambiguities and reflect shifting physical embodiment. Among the artists included are Morgan Bassichis, Nayland Blake, Pauline Boudry/Renate Lorenz, Vaginal Davis, ektor garcia, House of Ladosha, Candice Lin, Christina Quarles, Tschabalala Self, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Sable Elyse Smith and Wu Tsang.