Marilyn Minter - Soft Spoken - 2024
Two Palms has announced the release of Soft Spoken, a new silkscreen from Marilyn Minter. The edition will be on view at their booth at Art Basel Miami Beach, December 4 - 8, 2024.
For the last five decades, Marilyn Minter has employed painting, photography, video and now printmaking to explore beauty, autonomy and desire from a feminist, sex-positive perspective. Her vast body of work focuses on the female body and its portrayal in art history and popular media. Her often overtly sexual images of women reclaim the visual language of sex from a male-dominated and exploitative history.
In recent years, Minter has turned to the subject of the female bather, setting out to create a new iconography of the female gaze. As the artist explains, “Historically, it has been difficult to find images of naked women, painted by women. The Classicists, the Mannerists, and the Expressionists really loved portraying women bathing or grooming, or goddesses caught in the nude. But I wanted to ask the question, ‘what does it look like when a woman paints another woman grooming?’ She’s real, not idealized.” Shown behind steamed glass, Minter's bathers express their own agency, they decide how the viewer consumes their image and what parts of themselves are revealed. The viewer sees their sweat, their pubic hair, their open mouths in ways that push against and challenge traditional notions of beauty and sexuality.
Medium: Silkscreen in 24 colours.
Size: 45 1/8 x 60 1/4 inches
Edition of 40
Signed and numbered
Price on Request
This Marilyn Minter edition is available at Two Palms.
