Send Nudes

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The exhibition investigates contemporary interpretations of the subject of the female nude and finds a subversive new current to be emerging within this tradition. These new works reflect a change in focus from the idealised symbols of physical perfection embodied by classical depictions of the Venus or Madonna by male artists. The young women artists selected for this exhibition are developing a new language of the nude which represents the awkward, messy and grimly functional aspects of their experience.

Send Nudes aims to reflect a particular new current in the tradition of the female nude which perhaps reflects a time where the romance of this once hallowed subject has been stripped by its overexposure. These works cast the female nude in a refreshing light – fun and colourful, but also bleak and a ‘fucking mess’. They put an end to the heroism of past depictions of the female nude, eradicating the archetypal male gaze from the subject and exposing the ludicrousness of the centuries of sexualisation within this tradition.