Marilyn Minter Presents "My Cuntry 'Tis of Thee" @ Simon Lee Gallery London

Marilyn Minter, My Cuntry ’Tis of Thee, 2018. HD Digital Video. Duration 9:46. Courtesy of the artist, Simon Lee Gallery, London / Hong Kong and Salon 94, New York.

Marilyn Minter, My Cuntry ’Tis of Thee, 2018. HD Digital Video. Duration 9:46. Courtesy of the artist, Simon Lee Gallery, London / Hong Kong and Salon 94, New York.

Marilyn Minter, My Cuntry ’Tis of Thee, 2018. HD Digital Video. Duration 9:46. Courtesy of the artist, Simon Lee Gallery, London / Hong Kong and Salon 94, New York.

Marilyn Minter, My Cuntry ’Tis of Thee, 2018. HD Digital Video. Duration 9:46. Courtesy of the artist, Simon Lee Gallery, London / Hong Kong and Salon 94, New York.

Marilyn Minter, My Cuntry ’Tis of Thee, 2018. HD Digital Video. Duration 9:46. Courtesy of the artist, Simon Lee Gallery, London / Hong Kong and Salon 94, New York.

Marilyn Minter, My Cuntry ’Tis of Thee, 2018. HD Digital Video. Duration 9:46. Courtesy of the artist, Simon Lee Gallery, London / Hong Kong and Salon 94, New York.

In Marilyn Minter’s video work, “My Cuntry 'Tis of Thee” (2018), women write the word ‘cunt’ into condensation on a glass pane. As the women articulate each letter, their features are gradually revealed as the steam hiding them dissipates. Minter reclaims one of the most widely acknowledged offensive words by providing the women in her video the chance to, quite literally, write it away from its degrading associations. The artist’s debut exhibition with Simon Lee Gallery and her first solo presentation in the UK in thirty years explores feminism and sexual politics through images that dismantle Western culture’s hierarchies of censorship and misogyny. “My Cuntry 'Tis of Thee” is on view through July 13 at Simon Lee Gallery 12 Berkeley St, Mayfair, London. photographs courtesy of the artist and Simon Lee Gallery London.

Angela Bulloch 'New Wave Digits' @ Simon Lee Gallery In London

Simon Lee Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of new sculptures by acclaimed artist Angela Bulloch. Stacked columns of polyhedra, formed in steel, corian or MDF, populate the gallery space. Conceived and designed within a digital imaging program, this new body of sculptures, with their stylized geometry, electronic glow and manufactured surface sheen, might seem to channel New Wave Science Fiction - a genre typified by its imaginative, futuristic and often inaccurate notions of science and technology. Just as that genre’s writers accelerated the age’s visions of modernism, these geometric stacks suggest Brancusi’s Endless Column as if refracted through vector graphics, reinforcing a sense of ‘retro-futurity’. The temporality is confusing. Today, when much sculpture seems to be looking back toward the purity of minimalism, these works seem to refer to a later moment, when culture took imaginative leaps forward, postulating a world of stark angles and sawtooth synthesizers. Angela Bulloch 'New Wave Digits' will be on view until May 30th at Simon Lee Gallery in London.