Highlighting the multiplicity of feminist tendencies in artistic production over the last century, Straying from the Line at Schinkel Pavillon weaves a network of references and interconnections between otherwise aesthetically, politically, geographically and historically heterogeneous perspectives.
Appearing in this group show is Marianna Simnett's 2014 FVU commission The Udder. Shot on a robot dairy farm in rural Sussex, and conjuring extraordinary performances from the people who live and work there, Simnett’s magic-realist tale considers the increasingly technical process of automated milk production as the site of an elemental struggle between the forces of purification and corruption