Cut Out: Feminist Collage Symposium

Female artists have long employed collage techniques to reflect the ways in which identity is often constructed from conflicting, contrasting, and contradictory parts. Cut Out: A Feminist History of Photo Collage, Montage and Assemblage is a new V&A publication which explores the relationship between photography and feminist collage, foregrounding the use of femmage—a radical reclaiming of craft traditionally associated with women—as a resilient method within feminist and political art.

This symposium will explore key themes of the book: women’s collage practices prior to Modernism’s claim to the form; the materiality of photography in the lives and work of women artists; the use of found or discarded images as gestures of resistance and resilience; and the significance of domestic space in shaping women’s cultural production.

Full schedule to be announced.  Confirmed speakers include artists Martha Rosler, Linder, Chila Kumari Singh Burman, Maya Inès Touam and Thato Toeba and curators/academics Elizabeth Siegal, Dr Freya Gowrley and Tania Sanabria.

funded by the V&A Parasol Foundation Women in Photography Project