Jamie Luoto at Kristin Hjellegjerde
Content warning: references to sexual violence, murder, and other gendered violence It can be a cathartic experience to disassociate and allow art to feed your brain, to give you ideas with which to wrestle, or even to stop and wonder what the convoluted, abstract ideas are trying to tell you. In other times, the message is urgent: the jury is out about 'political' art, and how effective it is in terms of effectiveness (and of course this will vary with each respective artist), but how does overtly emotional artwork land? The kind of art that grabs you by the scruff of the neck and reminds you of individual and collective emergencies. If you can't think of an example of artwork that cries out in emotional pain, perhaps that is the point. Women's suffering, and sexual violence in particular, is predominantly conveyed in the public domain through statistics, legal and policy campaigning, and sometimes Me Too-style testimonials that are made public in an effort to seek e...
