Installations
From the 8th of September to the 24th of November, Manifesta 15 Barcelona Metropolitana presented a comprehensive programme featuring installations, archives and performances by the participants of the edition.
No results
What's on
Immolation
- TypeInstallation
- ParticipantJudy Chicago
- VenueMonastery of Sant Cugat
Immolation, 1972/2024 © Judy Chicago, Vegap, Barcelona 2024. Photo © Manifesta 15 Barcelona Metropolitana / Cecília Coca
Starting in the 1960s, the American artist Judy Chicago dared to propose an “openly female-centred art” in opposition to the male-dominated art scene. She started working with fireworks and coloured smoke with the intent to feminise and soften the environment, in contrast to much of the Land Art of the time that typically controlled and imposed violent gestures upon it. In the early 1970s, Chicago established the first feminist art programme in the United States at California State University. She subsequently brought a group of her students to the desert, painted their bodies and photographed them immersed in smoke. The woman in Immolation, which is part of Chicago’s Women and Smoke series, is the artist Faith Wilding. The image is informed by Chicago’s research into immolation as the ultimate form of protest, referring contemporaneously to Buddhist monks who self-immolated in protest against the Vietnam War as well as the Indian practice of sati, for which widows were forced to self-immolate in a funeral fire.
1972/2024
Inkjet print on paper
119 × 119 cm
Courtesy of the artist
Cookie consent
Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our site. This helps us to provide you with a good experience and, with your consent, helps us improve our website. For more details, see our cookies policy.