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Alexandra Christou’s (1950–2009) paintings insist on presence: the presence of women who desire, women who wait, women who work, women who take up space. Bringing together two bodies of work from the late 1980s and 1990s, this exhibition at The Breeder reveals an artist committed to making visible what is so often marginalised—female sexuality and the lived realities of women.
The exhibition unfolds across two interrelated chapters. On one level are Christou’s erotic paintings and drawings of the mid-1990s. On another are portraits of sex workers and women she encountered in her neighbourhood, around the centre of Athens—figures standing outside hotels, sitting beneath exposed lightbulbs, leaning against cars, talking, smoking, waiting.
The erotic works are remarkable for their directness. In paintings such as Untitled (In Love under shower) (1996) and Untitled (In Love Holding on) (1996), bodies press into one another with urgency and reciprocity. The compositions are spare, often set…
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Alexandra Christou’s (1950–2009) paintings insist on presence: the presence of women who desire, women who wait, women who work, women who take up space. Bringing together two bodies of work from the late 1980s and 1990s, this exhibition at The Breeder reveals an artist committed to making visible what is so often marginalised—female sexuality and the lived realities of women.
The exhibition unfolds across two interrelated chapters. On one level are Christou’s erotic paintings and drawings of the mid-1990s. On another are portraits of sex workers and women she encountered in her neighbourhood, around the centre of Athens—figures standing outside hotels, sitting beneath exposed lightbulbs, leaning against cars, talking, smoking, waiting.
The erotic works are remarkable for their directness. In paintings such as Untitled (In Love under shower) (1996) and Untitled (In Love Holding on) (1996), bodies press into one another with urgency and reciprocity. The compositions are spare, often set…
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