GENITAL PANIC :: Group Exhibition

2.24.18

Cunsthaus

Cunsthaus is pleased to announce Genital Panic, a group exhibition curated by Noelle Mason and Neil Bender. Genital Panic is an exhibition of artwork that presents bodies in a straight-forward, humorous, unapologetic and earnest way. The title is borrowed from artist Valie Export’s oft-imitated work of the same name. A work that imaged Export “man-spreading” with the crotch cut from her jeans brandishing an automatic weapon. America’s relationship to nude and naked imagery is both unnecessarily complicated and overly simplistic, cashing in on the tantalizing, titillating, and pornographic while simultaneously attempting to legislate puritanical moral judgments. This strange and strained relationship with our bodies, and more specifically our genitalia, including all forms of censorship, shame, and lack of direct factual education seems to produce at best embarrassment and humorous misunderstanding and at worst misogyny, assault, mutilation, violence and even death. Rather than focus on the omnipresent political climate, with Genital Panic our mission is to present work that celebrates our ‘nether regions,’ and all that comes along with them, without shame and baggage.

Artists who are featured in Genital Panic include: Linda Troeller, Ben Fain, Sara Clarken, Amber Hawk Swanson, Marcus DeSieno, Clifford Owens, Barbara DeGenevieve, Gina Stucchio, Kale Roberts, Karen Havens, Kim Turner-Smith, Julie Weitz, Loren Erdrich, Lena Marquise, Christine Comple, Jaro Studencki, Roger Clay Palmer, Taylor Pilote