“But wasn't he a man?” The gender reversal in Daniela Comani's art

Abstract

Using gendering as an artistic strategy, Daniela Comani rewrites not only the history of literature and publishing, but also the canon of general history, blockbusters movies and daily news. Over the years, Comani’s artistic research has included photographic and video material produced by herself, as well as images and articles collected from magazines and newspaper which she put together into an ongoing archive, from which she has drawn since the 1990’s and from which she continues to draw to create her works of art and her artist books.