"Female artists have a lot to do!" | Artist Miriam Cahn | Louisiana Channel
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“I’m an artist! I do what artists do!” Meet Swiss artist Miriam Cahn whose unique and intimate paintings and drawings depict women flashing genitals in burkas, white supremacy pornography and everything in between.
“Female artists have a lot to do. Because art history is mostly done by men,” says Miriam Cahn. Although she has no problem with art done by men, she noticed that women often lie passively in works done by men: “Females are to be erotic,” she says and continues: “It’s a tradition in art history. So we have a lot to do. Because we have to rewrite the art history.”
To do this, Cahn often paints the nude female body in action: punching, flashing, fucking. Most importantly, her subjects look directly at the viewer more often than not: “Is it still erotic if the women look back?” In installing her work, she ensures that the subjects of her paintings are in the eye line of the beholder: “If somebody looks
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