Artists

Ketty La Rocca, Valie Export

Press release

Curated by Andrea Maurer and Alberto Salvadori in collaboration with Studio VALIE EXPORT and the KETTY LA ROCCA Estate

Thaddaeus Ropac Milan presents as its second exhibition an unprecedented dialogue between VALIE EXPORT and KETTY LA ROCCA, two of the most visionary feminist conceptual artists to emerge in Europe during the 1960s. Both artists used their bodies as tools to challenge language’s patriarchal function and expose the dichotomy between its role in public and private space. They recognised that in order to convey their ideas an expanded field of action was required and moved beyond the constraints of a single medium. Photography, video, sculpture and performance were treated by both artists as fluid and permeable.