The ‘Forgotten’ Weaver at 'A Place in the World'

The exhibition included a version of a film installation made by Erika Tan for the Diaspora Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2017. A Place in the World is an exhibition of photography and film by women artists at East Gallery NUA, timed to coincide with the Southbank Centre’s Women of the World (WoW) Festival, hosted in Norwich for the first time. The works in the exhibition have been assembled as an exploration of the relationship between place and female identity. Place can be taken as location, that of the artist and the subject of the work, or social place and how gender constructs a female artist’s place in society. Some of the works in the exhibition are self-portraits while others depict women that the artist has some kind of empathy with, the artist sometimes putting herself in their place. Reflection is used as a formal device by some of these artists, either through the photography of an image in a reflective surface, or in the case of a double screen video piece, to reflect the subject of the work. The core of the exhibition is a series of loans from Arts Council Collection in London. This collection has strong holdings of photography and film by female artists, and a number of works selected for A Place in the World have not been exhibited recently. More information can be found on UALRO at http://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/13305/ http://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/13300/ http://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/13308/ http://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/11408