29th November - 7th December 2023
MACC x And Others
And Others is a long-term research project led by Dr. Lina Džuverović, aimed at exploring labour inequalities and the position of marginalised individuals within practices of contemporary artistic collectives, while advocating for a more inclusive working approach. The research-based exhibition Capturing Imbalance, developed from this study, focuses on revealing structural barriers within the labour market of the Chinese art industry, with particular attention to inequalities related to gendered labour, emotional labour, and sacrificial labour.
Building on the above, we conducted two semi-structured interviews with Chinese artistic practitioners who work collectively — Gia and Ping Lam Lin. The exhibition centres around our curation of key texts from the interviews, as well as related works that reflect the interviewees’ responses to the theme.
Although they are engaged in different fields and face different difficulties, what is in common is that they reveal the systemic inequality experienced by women who are disadvantaged by the primitive accumulation of capital in a patriarchal discourse. For example, women have always had to face greater obstacles and make more efforts in their professional development than men. Due to an imbalance of distributive power, men tend to associate women with the value of appearance, and the traditional division of labour within the household, to maintain their position of dominance. This has seriously led to the underestimation and misjudgment of women’s abilities and values.
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