Birgit Jürgenssen: Drawings and Photographs brings together twenty-four works spanning more than two decades of the Austrian feminist artist's practice — from Surrealist-inflected drawings of the late 1960s through groundbreaking photo linen and mixed-media experiments of the early 1990s. Working in deliberate privacy amid the violent masculinity of the Viennese Actionists, Jürgenssen developed a language of Surrealist irony and autobiographical depth to subvert gender hierarchies and the fetishization of the female body. Her Stoffarbeiten (fabric works) layer photographic images with linen and mesh, dissolving the body into shifting optical fields.
