CHRIS FREMANTLE

Margaret and Christine Wertheim are not wrong that Ecofeminism is underrepresented in PST. The new book Eleanor Heartney co-authored, Mothers of Invention makes the argument for the centrality of ecofeminism from the perspective of concerns in the arts – abstraction, craft, performance and ecology.

This is the exhibition that has Ecofeminism as it’s explicit focus. It is very much a sketch. It claims that Ecofeminism is an American idea. I wonder if the curators were aware of the much more substantial exhibition Re/Sisters: A Lens on Gender and Ecology which explicitly drew together a much wider narrative of the emergence and development which has a strong US representation but balances that with contributions from many other cultures.

Great to see Aviva Rahmani’s early performance work along with documentation of her durational restoration project Ghost Nets. The LA Times usefully focused on this in its review reviewhttps://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2024-10-15/pst-art-life-on-earth-ecofeminism-brick.

There is a good overview on ARTnews https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/life-on-earth-art-and-ecofeminism-exhibition-the-brick-los-angeles-1234722562/