Digital Exhibition
Masculinities: Liberation through Photography
Explore Masculinities: Liberation through Photography through our online exhibition guide, a curatorial introduction and other digital material.
Lee Mingwei, Fabric of Memory, 2020
Photo: Laura Fiorio
Masculinities in 15 Minutes | Curatorial Tour with Alona Pardo
Introduction to the exhibition
The curator Alona Pardo (Barbican Centre, London), gives an introduction to the exhibition Masculinities: Liberation through Photography. The six chapters of the temporarily closed group exhibition are presented with selected works.
Behind the Screen | Cassils
Video lecture
In this video lecture transmasculine performance artist and bodybuilder Cassils revisits their body transformation shown in Time Lapse(2011), which is part of our show Masculinities: Liberation through Photography. Cassils touches upon their experiences with illness, workout regimes, medical history and trans representation.
Image Gallery
Sam Contis, Chest, 2015 . From the series Deep Springs, 2017 . © Sam Contis, Courtesy: the artist and Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, New York
Sam Contis, Eggs, 2015 . From the series Deep Springs, 2017 . © Sam Contis, Courtesy: the artist and Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, New York
Larry Sultan, Fixing the Vacuum, 1991 . From the series Pictures from Home, 1992, estate of Larry Sultan, Casemore Kirkeby, San Francisco, and Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne . © MACK
Larry Sultan, Practicing Golf Swing, 1986 . From the series Pictures from Home, 1992, estate of Larry Sultan, Casemore Kirkeby, San Francisco, and Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne . © MACK
Adi Nes, Untitled, 1996, from the series “Soldiers”, 1994–2000 . Courtesy: the artist and Praz-Delavallade Paris, Los Angeles
Adi Nes, Untitled, 1996, from the series “Soldiers”, 1994–2000 . Courtesy: the artist and Praz-Delavallade Paris, Los Angeles
Aneta Bartos, Apple, 2017 . From the series Family Portrait, 2015–18 . © Aneta Bartos
Aneta Bartos, Scythe, 2016 . From the series Family Portrait, 2015–18 . © Aneta Bartos
Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Darkroom (_1980967), 2016 . © Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Courtesy: the artist and team (gallery, inc.), New York
Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Darkroom Mirror (_2080162), 2017 . © Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Courtesy: the artist and team (gallery, inc.), New York
Hal Fischer, Street Fashion: Jock, from the series “Gay Semiotics”, 1977/2016 . carbon pigment print, original dimensions of the picture: approx. 76.2 x 61 cm; framed: 79 x 63.6 x 3 cm . Courtesy: the artist and Project Native Informant London
Samuel Fosso, Self-portrait from the series “70s Lifestyle”, 1975–78 . © Samuel Fosso, Courtesy: Jean Marc Patras, Paris
Samuel Fosso, Self-portrait from the series “70s Lifestyle”, 1975–78 . © Samuel Fosso, Courtesy: Jean Marc Patras, Paris
Karen Knorr, Newspapers are no longer ironed, Coins no longer boiled So far have Standards fallen, 1981–83 . © Karen Knorr, Courtesy: Tate; Gifted by Eric and Louise Franck London Collection 2013
Sunil Gupta, Untitled 22 . From the series Christopher Street, 1976 . © Sunil Gupta & VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2019, Courtesy: the artist & Hales Gallery
Masculinites: Berlin Perspectives | Mix tape by Loren Britton
Further material for the exhibition
The mix tape titled Masc* for No Category crosses through and resonates alongside the exhibition Masculinities: Liberation through Photography. Troubling categorical and archetypical representations of masculinities, Loren Britton, interdisciplinary artist and thinker, follows re-representations of patriarchal masculinity in and outside of the exhibition.
