Hannah Wilke, una pionera en el arte feminista

Hannah Wilke es reconocida como una pionera del arte femenino, aunque en su época el uso de su cuerpo como objeto artístico era bastante polémico. La artista fue una de las primeras en explorar el "arte esencial", a través de fotogramas que guardan gran relación con la sexualidad. Descompone los mitos relacionados con la representación de la mujer en la cultura popular y en la historia del arte.

Su interés en el cuerpo la llevó a documentar su propia batalla con el cáncer

Hannah Wilke is recognized as a pioneer of feminist art, though in her time her confrontational use of her own body and satire of glamour modeling sometimes put her at odds with the feminist community. The artist was among the first to explore “essentialist art”, tying the female experience to the image of the vagina, which she rendered in folded clay, hanging latex, kneaded erasers, chewed bubble gum, or rolled-up laundry lint and stuck to photographs, postcards, and her body by the dozens. Her interest in the body took a somber turn as she documented her own battle with cancer.