Women’s Moving Image Showcase + Artisk Talk
MATRIARCHAL CAVE:
The Language of Myth Through her Eyes
MATRIARCHAL CAVE:
The Language of Myth Through her Eyes
MATRIARCHAL CAVE: The Language of Myth Through her Eyes is a women’s moving image showcase centering on female-identifying artists working with moving image, whose works explore myth, embodiment, ritual, and matriarchal world-building. The project highlights how women artists employ moving image and performance-based video to explore mythological and bodily symbolism as tools for self-representation and subject formation.
Featuring five works spanning from 1977 to 2025, the showcase presents visual languages rooted in ritual, memory, and feminist myth-making, enacting a form of feminist storytelling that reclaims the right to define one’s identity, history, and imaginative future.
Programme Selection:
Cinderella (1977) – Le Nemesiache
The Red Book (1994) – Janie Geiser
We Were Hardly More Than Children (2019) – Cecelia Condit
Vestal Virgin Vengeance (2024) – Virginia L. Montgomery
The New Goddess (2025) – Zhang Zaozao
*5mins intro by Wenqi Zhang and Yaiza Hernandez Escobar before the showcase
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The screening will be followed by an in-depth conversation between artist Zaozao Zhang, artist Jiayi Chen and international curator Danielle Paterson, offering insights into the global context of women’s artistic practices.
Guests are invited to a drink reception, connecting with fellow artists and art enthusiasts, and to mark a significant moment—this is the final event at Ethereal Maison Gallery’s current venue before it moves to a new chapter.
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Date & Time:
Sunday, August 24, 2025, 6PM –8PM
Venue: Ethereal Maison Gallery, 62 Roman Rd, Bethnal Green, London E2 0PG
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Curators: Wenqi Zhang, Xinxin Li
Special Curatorial Advisor: Yaiza Hernandez Escobar
Poster Designer: Ash Li
Presented by: Which Witch Collective
In Collaboration with: Ethereal Maison Gallery