The Eve Principle - Masculinity by Women

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“If the Adam and Eve story had been written in a twentieth-century institute of embryological research, Eve would have been created first. Then, perhaps, an archangel would have descended with an injection needle laden with testosterone, the masculinising hormone, and the combination of Eve plus testosterone would produce Adam.”

-Andrea Long Chu, Females

Andrea Long Chu’s “Females”, along with the research of many authors working(or worked) in the matter of gender such as Virginie Despendes and Kathy Acker, debunked the notion of masculinity where one actively participates in the process of developing and acting out masculine traits and is always in control. Instead, they argue that masculinisation, like feminisation, is a socially mandated process imposed on an individual and often strips one of their power and agency.

“The Eve Principle" is an exhibition that delves into the complex and multifaceted representations of masculinity through the eyes of five contemporary women artists. In this show, the traditional boundaries of gender and identity are not only examined but actively reinterpreted, as the artists explore masculinity from a perspective that challenges, redefines, and reimagines it. Their works open new spaces for dialogue about strength, fragility, beauty, and power, while exploring how these qualities are embodied, performed, and transformed when viewed through a female lens.

The show asks viewers to reconsider how gendered identities are constructed, performed, and understood. Through the lens of these powerful, both direct and nuanced bodies of work, one is invited to question the ways in which masculinity and femininity intersect, and how both can be embraced, subverted, and recreated.