SHE: Exhibition of street art at Rome gallery

Rosso20sette brings together an international cast of female urban artists in a group exhibition.

A new group exhibition celebrating the work of six internationally acclaimed female street artists is on display at Rosso20sette arte contemporanea in Rome until 10 July.

Entitled SHE Street (Art) – Her (Art) – Exhibition, and curated by Giorgio Silvestrelli, the show features works on paper and canvas, some never previously exhibited and others created expressly for the occasion.

The title functions as both pronoun and acronym: “S” for street art, “H” for her, underlining that every work on show was made by a woman, and “E” for exhibition. As Silvestrelli writes in his curatorial note, the decision to foreground the feminine perspective stems from a recognition that the word artist is gender-neutral in English – and that the work of these six figures demands to be seen and named on its own terms.

Artists

The exhibiting artists are Swoon (the pseudonym of American Caledonia Dance Curry, born 1978), whose cut-paper works feature in the permanent collections of MoMA in New York and the Tate in London; South African multidisciplinary artist Faith XLVII, who divides her time between Cape Town and Los Angeles and whose works were recently shown at Amsterdam’s STRAAT Museum; Canadian painter Sandra Chevrier, known for layering superhero imagery over female portraits; Copenhagen-based muralist Jacoba Niepoort, born in 1987, who has painted in public spaces since 2009; Dutch collage artist Handiedan, born in 1981, whose large-scale murals appear on building facades worldwide; and Portuguese painter and muralist Patrícia Mariano, born in 1988, whose figurative work operates between reality and surrealism.