Emphatic Portraits - My Problem is a Problem of a Woman
1974 · Letterpress
sheet: 27 3/8 × 19 5/8" (69.5 × 49.8 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Ewa Partum
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Ewa Partum is a Polish artist working across performance, video, and conceptual practice since the 1970s. Her work engages with linguistic systems, the body, and documentation as forms of resistance within constrained institutional and political contexts. Operating within postwar Eastern European avant-garde networks, Partum has used written text, spoken language, and temporal intervention as primary materials. Her practice interrogates how meaning is constructed and regulated through official channels and everyday communication.
Source: Moma Bulk 2026 05 04 · Trust score: 92% · Updated 25d ago
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