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Simone de Beauvoir declared: “he is the Subject, he is the Absolute—she is the Other,” a position the woman has been placed in and has struggled against for as long as there is Western history. The exhibition and artists within it argue that she does not have to remain on the border of other-hood, but can confidently place herself in center stage and take back the spotlight.

One of the many issues facing the contemporary female artist is how, unknowingly, she may not present the viewer with a translatable representation of how she externalizes instances of internal oppression from society, …