Gender and art

[...] "Rosalind Krauss’s well-known essay on Francesca Woodman is called “Francesca Woodman: Problem Sets”; it reminds the reader/viewer that some of Woodman’s most famous photographs were in fact meticulously done homework, careful experiments with form, in the context of the pedagogical methods then prevalent at the Rhode Island School of Design, where the young photographer went to school. Krauss decodes her images according to the simple “problems” to which they respond..."

Francesca Woodman, Untitled, New York 1979-1980.

LONDON.- Victoria Miro Mayfair presents the first solo exhibition of Francesca Woodman's work at the Mayfair gallery. In her short career Woodman produced an extraordinary body of work - over 800 photographs - acclaimed for its singularity of style and range of innovative techniques.

This exhibition considers the zigzag and other abstract geometrical forms as recurring visual themes in Woodman’s work. Woodman’s practice is often discussed in terms of its surreal and symbolic imagery, but her work was grounded in a sophisticated understanding of form. Her photography exemplified strong compositional motifs, and the repetitive, regular shape of the zigzag, with its strong lines and angles, was a form she used in images of disparate subjects.

Francesca Woodman / Zigzag

9 September - 4 October 2014
Victoria Miro Mayfair Gallery, London

http://www.victoria-miro.com/exhibitions/463/