Today, New York artist Marilyn Minter opens her first UK solo show in thirty years at Simon Lee Gallery. The provocative feminist untangles consumer culture, looking at the many ideas of beauty, glamour, sexuality and desire that are bound up within it, and very often defined by it. Her images cut through the way we are seduced by advertising, very often with the use of female bodies, and almost always for the greater cause of us opening our wallets. “In My Cuntry ’Tis of Thee women write the word ‘cunt’ in various guises into condensation on a glass pane…,” writes the gallery. “Placing a word widely acknowledged as amongst the most offensive in the English language into the hands of each of the women in her video, Minter reclaims it from chauvinistic associations and rescues it from centuries of censorship and degradation.”
