“Ines Doujak’s sculpture was a cumbersome reminder of repressed history, of the invisibility of minority bodies.”
– The full text appears in Spike #66 . You can buy it in our online shop –
Ines Doujak’s group portrait caused two curators to lose their jobs and a Barcelona exhibition to close. This is only part of the story though, as the scandal revolved around a sculpture and not an image that could be simply deleted. Now several years after the fact, what does the history of a cancelled object and its exhibition reveal about how the art world deals with controversy?
“Ines Doujak’s sculpture was a cumbersome reminder of repressed history, of the invisibility of minority bodies.”
– The full text appears in Spike #66 . You can buy it in our online shop –