
Action Pants: Genital Panic
A striking black-and-white photograph documents Export's provocative 1969 performance in which she walked through a Munich cinema wearing crotchless pants and carrying a machine gun, directly confronting audiences with unmediated female sexuality. The silver gelatin print captures Export in a powerful, wide-legged stance, her expression intense and confrontational as she gazes directly into the camera. The work challenges the passive objectification of women in cinema and mass media, reclaiming the female body as a site of agency and political resistance.
- Medium
- silver gelatin print
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Phillips
🔨 Auction Lot
Contemporary Art Day Sale
February 15, 2013
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