NYAB Event - "The Girl Effect" Exhibition

"The Girl Effect" Exhibition

Jane Lombard Gallery

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Lombard-Freid Projects announces "The Girl Effect," an exhibition inspired by the notion that young girls are powerful agents for social change. The show brings together the work of seven young, internationally based women artists - Yara El-Sherbini, Cao Fei, Lauren Kelley, Tala Madani, Ana Prvacki, Rona Yefman/Tanja Schlander and Nina Yuen - whose work is engaged with social issues. The exhibition places their work in the context of The Girl Effect campaign (www.girleffect.org), which raises funds to support the education of young girls in poor communities in Africa and Asia. The wide reaching impact of The Girl Effect campaign and the work of its charities has met with tremendous success, as educated and self-confident young women become able to support their local economies and at the same time prevent the spread of AIDS, poverty and early pregnancy. These issues are both intimate and public- local and global - pose challenges and yet offer clear identifiable solutions. The Girl Effect exhibition represents an effective way for our gallery to play an expanded role in encouraging activism and charitable giving as a curatorial framework. The gallery has started a registry for public contribution and will be donating 10% of all sales to the campaign.

The artists participating in The Girl Effect represent diverse cultural backgrounds and employ strategies of humor, critique, introspection, and sometimes confrontation to convey subjects that are as varied as the media in which they are expressed (video, animation, installation, performance, sculpture). Their fresh and self-assured approaches offer provocative explorations of subjectivity, giving us access to new perspectives on social structures and encouraging us to interrogate our own participation in the processes of power.

Media

• Sculpture
• Installation
• Video installation
• Performance Art

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