This is gender

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Every body is gendered. Gender permeates all aspects of our lives, it stratifies society, defines opportunities and shapes our identity. And yet there is a global tendency to reduce the dynamic, varied and complex nature of gender to a singular image of woman-as-other. In contemporary consciousness, gender’s face is invariably female. This exhibition is a challenge to this rigid and reductive limited way of seeing gender. 

Drawn from over 400 submissions from 53 different countries, This is Gender brings together the work of 22 photographers selected by a panel of international experts. Mobilised into dialogue with one another these works challenge, confront and complexify the lens through which we envision our gendered world. They hold up a mirror to the diverse ways gender norms -  rigid and fluid, traditional and progressive – are lived and challenged by men, women, transgender and non-binary people.  

Together they tell a different story of gender. 

Encounter the many faces of gender. March 9th -20th 2020. North Cloisters, UCL. Join us for the exhibition reception on March 13th, 8pm. Registration essential- sign up here.  

GH5050 is an emerging leader in pushing forward conversations around gender and its interactions with health and opportunity, in organisations and more generally in public discourse.