Naomi Salaman (born 25 March 1963) is a British
conceptual artist, writer and curator. Her practice uses photography and is informed both by
feminism and
post-structuralism. She attended
Chelsea College of Arts, and completed a research/practice PhD at
Goldsmiths in 2008. She currently teaches in Fine Art at
University of Brighton.[1] Salaman has written, made work on and/or curated exhibitions related to a wide range of topics including: the art school; pornography and censorship; image technologies; and social justice. She has taught studio art and art theory courses in art and photography schools nationally, and has taught fine art at University of Brighton since 1996.[2]
Exhibitions
Salaman curated the exhibition What She Wants: Women Artists Look at Men in 1994, which presented a collection of female artists exploring the gendered gaze by taking male nude photography. The work has been regarded as a good example of how the gendered gaze can support a change in power relations.[3] Barbara Bickel found that the exhibition was one of few examples where women artists used male bodies in their practices to expose sexual desire and pleasure.[4] This touring photographic exhibition has been regarded as a crucial exhibition on "how women looked at men".[5]
Salaman's work, Changed Press Marks of the Private Cases (2001), was exhibited alongside ten artists in the Potential: Ongoing Archive, curated by Anna Harding in the John Hansard Gallery of the University of Southampton.[6] Salaman used microfilm to record archivist cards related to private cases in the British Library. The library believed some materials were not suitable for public access and therefore kept them away in private cases. The photographed cards traced how archivists gradually removed the ban from some books.[7]
Other exhibitions and works:
Recent issue: a Survey of Recent British Photography in conjunction with Creative Camera (touring exhibition), Akehurst Gallery, 1994[8]
What She Wants (touring exhibition), Stills Gallery, 1995[9]
Salaman, Naomi (2015). "Art Theory - handmaiden of neoliberalism?". Journal of Visual Art Practice. Vol. 14, no. 2. pp. 162–173.
doi:
10.1080/14702029.2015.1060067.
References
^"Naomi Salaman". The University of Brighton. Retrieved 18 July 2019.
^Bull, Stephen, 1971- (2010). Photography. London: Routledge. p. 56.
ISBN9780415429184.
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^Integral voices on sex, gender, and sexuality. Fisher, Vanessa D., Nicholson, Sarah E. Albany. 16 July 2014. p. 213.
ISBN978-1438452203.
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^Tel: +4420 7679 2000, University College London-Gower Street- London- WC1E 6BT.
"Looking Back at the Life Room". www.lifestudy.ac.uk. Retrieved 5 July 2019.{{
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