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Vaginal Davis is one of the founders of the homo-core punk movement. She chooses to exploit herself to engage in rude provocations and "gender-fucking." As a self-labeled "sexual repulsive", she is an icon of the disruptive performance aesthetic known as terrorist drag.
Award-winning artist, acclaimed author and international blacktress Vaginal Davis is coming to Stockholm. In her pioneering and incredibly diverse oeuvre, punk meets glamour, queer activism meets racial justice and resistance meets joy. “Magnificent Product” is her first major solo exhibition.
9 mar 2024 · Queer icon Vaginal Davis: ‘I live in a female-centered cosmos’ | Art Basel. As she prepares to unveil her first major solo exhibition – opening at Stockholm’s Moderna Museet on May 17th – the performer, filmmaker, writer, and all-around legend retraces the inspiring journey that took her from LA to Berlin. By Coline Milliard.
26 apr 2020 · Vaginal Davis. Davis’s touchstone work, The White to be Angry (1999), challenges constructions and desires around white supremacist culture as it circulates across the entire political spectrum.
12 dic 2015 · Throughout the eighties, Vaginal Davis developed multiple personas and performed incongruous identities. She was a black revolutionary drag queen, a teen-age Chicana pop star, a...
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Davis’s paintings of “women trapped in the bodies of women” evoke a longer art history of icon painting, originating in the damp fortresses of 11th-century Byzantium and practiced to this day by Vaginal Davis on the idyllic Rote Insel in Berlin.
Vaginal Davis. Born in Los Angeles, CA, USA. Lives and works in Berlin. Solo Shows. 2024 — Magnificent Product, Moderna Museet, Stockholm (upcoming) 2021 — The Wicked Pavilion, Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi / Eden Eden, Berlin. 2020 — The White to be Angry, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA.
