Margaret Harrison

Co-founder of the London Women’s Liberation Art Group in 1970,Margaret Harrison (1940, Yorkshire) is one of England’s most committed feminist artists. The BPS22 is giving her centre stage in a major solo exhibition for the first time in Belgium.

Known for her drawings of big-breasted US comic book superheroes in stilettos and mis­chie­vous­ly subverted art history icons, Margaret Harrison focusses on a humorous decon­struc­tion of the dogmas governing sexist popular imagery in our society.

Drawing on social and political concerns, her work is also obser­va­tion­al. Many of her instal­la­tions are based on photographs, interviews and images produced by the mass media, dealing with the rela­tion­ship between gender and class from a feminist perspective. Both alone and as part of a collective, she pursues a soci­o­log­i­cal analysis of women’s working conditions following the 1970s industrial crisis in Great Britain, domestic violence and even nuclear weapons.

Through a body of work covering her entire career from the early 1970s to the present day, the exhibition Dancing on the Missiles [Dancing on the Missiles] bears witness to the commitment of this artist who has placed her activism and humour at the service of radical art for almost 50 years.

Curator: Fanny Gonella, Director 49 Nord 6 Est - FRAC Lorraine

EXHIBITION: 20.02 > 23.05.2021

An exhibition produced by 49 Nord 6 Est – FRAC Lorraine (Fonds Régional d’Art Con­tem­po­rain in Metz [Regional Con­tem­po­rary Arts Fund in Metz]) in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the BPS22 Museum of art of the Hainaut Province.