Savoir Faire, 2009

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Thompson, Milly. 2009. Savoir Faire, 2009. In: "Savoir Faire", Focal Point Gallery, Southend on sea, United Kingdom, 4 July to 15 August 2009. [Show/Exhibition]

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Item Type:

Show/Exhibition

Creators:

Thompson, Milly

Abstract or Description:

Solo show showing a body of works including sculpture, video and a commissioned print 'Save Southend-on-Sea Central Library'.
'Savoir Faire' considered the textures of beauty and representation around ideas of perfection and social and art world aspiration.
'Save Southend-on-Sea Central Library' juxtaposes the issues in the exhibition against the broader onslaught of gentrification and capitalism.

Contributors:

Thompson, Milly; Cullinan, Nicholas and Hunt, Andrew

Official URL:

http://www.focalpoint.org.uk/archive/exhibitions/2...

Keywords:

humour, anti-feminism, neo-liberalism, art-world, gender, glamour, consumerism, performativity, desire, Alison Jones, irreverence, age, ageing, painting, slut, sluttiness commodity capitalism gentrification

Departments, Centres and Research Units:

Art

Date range:

4 July to 15 August 2009

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