Recent debates in the field of contemporary art have underlined the political importance of creative reworkings of the past, especially for those subjects that have been traditionally marginalised. A feminist perspective has been nevertheless quite absent from such debates. This article addresses feminist uses of archival documents in the visual arts through the analysis of three works produced in the past two decades: The Fae Richard's Photo Archive (1997) by Zoe Leonard and Cheryl Dunye, Some Chance Operations (1998) by Renée Green and Queen of the Artists’ Studios (2004–2007) by Andrea Geyer. These works share an interest for women's histories and representations by composing a series of documents (both factual and fictive) into complex narratives where history and subjectivity intersect.
Féminisme, étude des rapports sociaux de sexe, gender studies, queer studies : les termes varient et les perspectives, effectivement, divergent. Les écueils, eux, demeurent : risque de spécifier, d'exclure, de réinstaurer des catégories. Bien qu'on puisse toujours percevoir les limites de toute entreprise visant à la remise en question de la norme et à la définition de la complexité des relations humaines, il faut reconnaître à ces Histoire de l'art en France et gender studies : un mariage contre nature ?
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.