To celebrate Kembra Pfahler's new publication with Rizzoli, we dive into the artist's unflinching visual archive.
with Rizzoli at Dover Street Market last week. The statement distills four decades of uncompromising work into a single phrase. For Pfahler, performance is ceremony, a ritualistic act of critique, and collective transformation.
Since arriving on the Lower East Side in the early 1980s, Pfahler has been the driving force behind a feminist underground in New York. From her early Cinema of Transgression to The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black , to gallery interventions featuring dozens of painted nude bodies, she’s forged a visual language entirely her own. Along the way, she’s obliterated every rule about acceptable femininity, refusing the polite confines of female artmaking and performance. The new book collects four decades of ephemera, performance documentation, and portraits of her unflinching vision. To celebrate, we’ve gathered some of Pfahler’s most electric moments from the book.“Jump the Fucking Barricades”: Girl Dick Takes Us Inside Their Mosh Pit
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