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Norvina, Bucharest, Romania
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Agata, Vilnius, Lithuania
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Maria Izabella, Tallinn, Estonia
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Ania, Gdańsk, Poland
Exhibition
Nothing but a Curtain
26 Apr 2022 – 28 Apr 2022
Regular hours
- Tue, 26 Apr
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Wed, 27 Apr
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Thu, 28 Apr
- 10:00 – 20:00
Free admission
Address
- Elephant & Castle
- SE1 6SB
- London
- SE1 6SB
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- 1, 12, 35, 40, 45, 53, 63, 68, 100, 133, 148, 155, 168, 171, 172, 176, 188, 322, 333, 343, 344, 360, 363, 453, C10, P5
- Bakerloo and Northern line
- Thameslink to Elephant & Castle
This multi-media exhibition seeks to challenge cultural and gender stereotypes about the former “Eastern Bloc” by documenting the experiences of post-Soviet women, non-binary, genderfluid and transgender people from the region.
About
In the summer of 2021, Zula Rabikowska travelled 4,552 miles (7325.80 km) across the former “Eastern bloc” to document post-Soviet gender identity. Visiting 20 cities across 10 countries, tracing the border known as the “Iron Curtain”, Zula photographed and interviewed 104 people about their personal experiences of gender and womanhood. For millions, the end of Soviet communism, symbolised by the 1989 Berlin Wall collapse, brought about a transition at once personal, social and political. It is women, non-binary, genderfluid and transgender, who like Zula, were born during this transition that are the focus of Nothing But a Curtain.
Zula embarked on her journey, with her Soviet-made Kiev 80 camera, to highlight the heterogeneity of life and identity in these countries and through this, resist the homogenising, xenophobic and misogynistic legacy of Western Cold War thinking—thinking that condensed millions of people into a “Bloc.” Nothing But a Curtain also critiques the contemporary male-dominated political systems, sexist stereotypes and restrictive beauty standards that many woman, girls, transgender, non-binary and gender fluid people face in the region.
Follow the artist Zula Rabikowska on @zula.ra and see more of her work here https://zulara.co.uk/
Follow the curators Vera Hadzhiyska @verahadzhiyska and Oisín Davies @parc_ual
Private View: (Thursday 28 April) https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/nothing-but-a-curtain-private-view-tickets-313544127927
Well Gallery Exhibition: (26th – 28 April ) https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/nothing-but-a-curtain-tickets-313640435987
