Dominique Defoe Instagram – not the artistic genius L word chart😩 this is your sign that if women were breaking every societal norm to create groundbreaking art in THE EARLY 1900s there is no excuse for you🙄
but one of the things that inspired me to do an artist residency in France SPECIFICALLY was the ‘brilliant exiles’ exhibit in the @smithsonian. it focused on the art of queer women, WOC, feminists, etc. who went to France in the early 1900s due to America’s oppressive ideologies (✨sounds familiar✨). but the art they created and the impact it has had on culture is INSANE from creating new methods of dance, painting, sculpture, to the effect it had on the curation of art itself like the @guggenheim.
it was truly revolutionary to have these groups of women meeting up to support each other personally and as artists when most of what they were doing was ILLEGAL, hello?!!! AND all of the love affairs between them? I was so confused going through the exhibit bc I was like wait I thought these two people were together and turns out there was so much crossover as they all dated each other and created art of each other😠anyways that’s part of why I’m in France! | Posted on 25/Apr/2025 19:26:48
