PCAI resident artist Linder and her work is featured on the cover of Frieze Magazine (issue 248) on the occasion of her forthcoming retrospective in Hayward Gallery. Philippa Snow’s Frieze article titled Titillate and Terrorize focuses on the pioneering work of Linder, delving into a personal reflection on the artist’s feminist photomontages and their enduring impact.
The author notes on Linder’s work: “As an image, it is a perfect introduction to the artist’s work: a primal scream of anti-domestic, anti-patriarchal rage combined with a pornographic moan of feminine pleasure, designed to titillate and terrorize in one fell swoop. Photomontage – a medium that allows the artist to steal directly from mainstream sources for the purposes of countercultural subversion, as seen in the works of Hannah Höch and, later, Martha Rosler – lends itself fairly seamlessly to the creation of feminist art. It can make the familiar newly unfamiliar, even surreal, and Linder’s merging of female figures and domestic machines, of pornography and flowers, ably expressed the unmooring, vaguely hallucinatory quality inherent in occupying the world as a woman and being asked to embody several contradictory states at once: prettiness and filthiness, wifeliness and wantonness, an almost mechanized functionality in both the bedroom and the kitchen.”
Read the full article online:
https://www.frieze.com/article/linder-philippa-snow-248
In May 2024 Linder was invited by PCAI to participate in a residency programme in Athens and Delphi curated by Kika Kyriakakou. Her research-based residency culminated with an original performance titled Cut to the Chase at the former Pikionis pavilion, now “Pi” in Delphi. The origin of “cut to the chase” as an idiom is traced to the cinematic meaning of the verb ‘cut’ and film editing back in the 1920s. Linder’s uncompromising work, whether it is photomontage, performance or video, is all about cutting, cutting out, cutting across media or received ideas. The pioneering artist participated in PCAI’s Sheltered Gardens group exhibition (2022-2023) at the Diomedes Botanical Garden, as well as in the PCAI Sheltered Gardens‘ programme at the National Museum of Contemporary Art EMST on February 29, 2024.
Cut to the Chase performers: Charis Dimos, Nicole Economides, Eliza Krikoni, Vassilis Noulas, Anna Papathanasiou, Kostas Tzimoulis, Spiros Varelis
Cut to the Chase film director: Natalia Papadopoulou
Cut to the Chase music: Maxwell Sterling
Cut to the Chase production: Vasia Magoula
About Linder
Linder was born in Liverpool in 1954, and lives and works in London. A retrospective of her work, Femme/Objet, was organised in 2013 by the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, later travelling to the Kestner Gesellschaft, Hanover. Her first institutional survey in the UK, Linderism, was mounted in 2020 at Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, later travelling to the Hatton Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne. Linder has presented recent solo exhibitions at Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Paris (2023); Blum, Los Angeles (2022); Modern Art, London (2019); Glasgow Women’s Library (2018); Nottingham Contemporary (2018); Chatsworth House, Derbyshire (2018); The Hepworth Wakefield (2013); and Tate St Ives (2013). She has participated in recent two-person and group exhibitions at dépendance, Brussels (2022); Tate Liverpool (2021); the Royal Academy, London (2020); Camden Art Centre, London (2020); the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh (2019); and Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen (2019). In 2017, she was awarded the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award. Linder’s works are held in collections including the Arts Council Collection, London; the DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens; the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; Museum of Modern Art, New York; and Tate, London.
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