Fake Female Artist Life #1, #2, #3 (2003 – ongoing) is shown at the exhibition Uncanny at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington DC. The exhibition explores modern and contemporary women artists’ bold use of the uncanny as a feminist strategy and social critique.
Uncanny features works by more than 30 artists, from renowned figures of modern art history such as Louise Bourgeois, Leonora Carrington, Meret Oppenheim and Remedios Varo to prominent contemporary artists including Berlinde De Bruyckere, Pipilotti Rist, Shahzia Sikander, Laurie Simmons, Mathilde ter Heijne, and Gillian Wearing. Named for the term popularized by Sigmund Freud to describe the unsettling psychological experience of something both familiar and foreign, Uncanny is the first exhibition to examine this concept through a feminist lens. The work F.F.A.L. #1, #2, #3 has been donated to the National Museum of Women in the Arts by the Heather and Tony Podesta Collection.
National Museum of Women in the Arts
Washington DC
February 28–August 10, 2025