Champagne Life exhibition,featuring 14 female artists, seems to represent all the oppressed generations who never got the chance to pick up a paintbrush
A white-haired woman looks unnervingly across a huge white space in the Saatchi Gallery from ashen eyes magnified by huge tortoiseshell-framed spectacles. What has she seen? What does she know? And why does her judgment seem so severe?
Ljubica is one of three colossal portraits of older women by Jelena Bulajić that feature in Champagne Life, or an exhibition entirely by female artists that opens at the Saatchi next week. Bulajić is in her 20s,but the women she portrays bear the marks of time: they are “conventional women”, but here one of contemporary society’s most marginalised identities is painted into power. These faces seem to represent not just themselves but all the oppressed generations who never got the chance to pick up a paintbrush or sell an unmade bed at Christie’s.
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Source: theguardian.com