It is, in short, a lot. The Barbican’s sprawling exhibition features over 300 artworks that chronicle the presentation of ‘masculinities’ in photography and film from the 1960s to present day. By continuing to browse the site you are agreeing to our use of We have reopened some of our venues. The film forces us to be a voyeur to an act that seems too close to fetish. Is he doing this because we’re watching?

The fact that the Queer masculinities, Black Masculinities and the masculine through the eyes of Women were supplementary sections on the second floor? Please note you may need to update your password. Groups is open Mon-Fri so we'll aim to respond by the next working day.© 2020 Barbican Centre, Silk Street, London, EC2Y 8DSCurator Tour - Masculinities: Liberation through PhotographyMasculinities In Conversation: Karen Knorr and Anna Fox Is that something to comment on?

Curator Tour - Masculinities: Liberation through Photography.

The Barbican’s sprawling exhibition features over 300 artworks that chronicle the presentation of ‘masculinities’ in photography and film from the 1960s to present day. The one question I had whilst walking through Masculinities: Liberation Through Photography and reading the curator's text was: but does it really do that?

It’s another supposed display of vulnerability – here described as “‘leaky masculinity,’” a masculinity not up to standard – and yet, it’s one of the more discomfiting, even threatening, pieces of the show.

Here curator Alona Pardo and curatorial assistant Chris Bayley talk us through some highlights from their Masculinities: Liberation Through Photography exhibition at the Barbican. Find out more about which exhibitions are currently available for touring with If you have a group of 10+ our Groups team can help. In some ways I feel the exhibition should have started with this, rooting the question of masculinity in an area which almost everyone can find relevance and relation.There were some epics in the form of Richard Billingham’s ‘Ray’s A Laugh’ and Larry Sultan’s ‘Pictures From Home,’ which both explore the complex idea of a son’s perception of his father. According to the accompanying literature, co-authored by Alona Pardo (the curator) and Jane Alison (Barbican Head of Visual Arts), the exhibition aims to ‘explore the ways in which masculinity is variously experienced, performed, coded and socially constructed as expressed and documented through photography and film from the 1960s to the present day’.

Some works seemed trite: alternating videos of men shouting and crying; soft, aesthetically driven portraits of soldiers, of sports players, of cowboys. Masculinities, Barbican review: an impeccably woke exercise in sticking it to the man 3. The use of all-white apparel in this colour film is too deliberate to me; his trousers dampen with an unknowable fluid, you think, ‘Is this piss-stained or cum-stained?
Masculinities: Liberation through Photography is part of the Barbican’s 2020 season, Inside Out, which explores the relationship between our inner lives and creativity.

Jane Alison, Head of Visual Arts, Barbican , said: "I am delighted that we can now reopen our Masculinities: Liberation through Photography exhibition, which had met with such acclaim earlier in the year. Jeremy Deller’s ‘So Many Ways To Hurt You (The Life and Times of Adrian Street)’ was delightful, the elaborate painted mural breaking through the gallery’s white walls.

Everyone who visits us will need a ticket in advance. But there is also an undeniable irony when considering their scale, and more importantly, their position, which detracts from the curator’s assumed point that ‘even the archetypal (Straight Cis) White Man can be without power.’ Coplans’ imposingly large photographs span the breadth of the first wall – these panels are the very first thing we see – is that not a symbol of power in itself?
It’s also a lot of words and analyses that make you feel like you’re taking an Intro to Gender Studies course in the 1980s, only now sprinkled with modern buzzwords like ‘toxic’ and ‘fragile’ masculinity.“Coplans reveals the white male as someone who is not necessarily powerful and strong, but as someone who is also human and vulnerable.”Coplans’ work isn’t racialised at all – being a white man he has that advantage – so already I wasn’t convinced of that angle. More info.

Unsettling in a much more visceral way was ‘My Mother’s Cupboards and My Father’s Words’ by Anna Fox.

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