“Herstory” premiered at the New Museum, New York in 2023, receiving rare reviews as it provided for the first time a historical context and narrative to Chicago’s body of work. The exhibition was the iconic feminist artist’s most comprehensive New York museum survey to date. LUMA Arles will host the exhibition in the Summer 2024, in Arles, as a reconceived and expanded exhibition, building on the success of the New Museum show. Spanning more than sixty years of the artist’s career for the most expansive exhibition of her work in Europe to date, “Herstory” traces Chicago’s practice from her early experiments in Minimalism in the 1960s and her revolutionary feminist art of the 1970s to her series of the 1980s and 1990s—such as the Birth Project, PowerPlay, Resolutions: A Stitch in Time (1994–2000), and The End: A Meditation on Death and Extinction (2012–18)— which expand the purview of her Second Wave Feminist agenda to confront environmental disaster, genocide, social inequity, birth and creation, mortality, and the construct of masculinity. Contextualizing Chicago’s feminist methodology within the many art movements in which she participated—and from whose histories she has frequently been erased—“Herstory” showcases Chicago’s tremendous impact over many decades.
New to the LUMA Arles incarnation will be a revival of Chicago’s early ground-breaking Feather Room, which will be at the center of the exhibition and An Homage to Arles, a newly commissioned Smoke SculptureTM which will be a highlight of the opening events.
at LUMA Arles
until September 29, 2024
