Valie Export

Valie Export is an avant-garde Austrian artist. She is best known for provocative public performances and expanded cinema work, but her work spans video installations to body performances. Using the female body as a method to communicate the complexity of society’s eroticism towards women, the toxic male gaze and liberation. Furthermore, Export places her own female body within the architectural landmarks or within the natural environment showing that the body can transcend the physical boundaries between self and surroundings. Ultimately, she uses performance art and film to explore the realities of women's bodies rather than the fantasised depictions of women's bodies in society.