Overview

For the Leeds part of their project ‘Changing Places’, the artists Phil Sayers (UK) and Rikke Lundgreen (Norway) have made artworks which reinterpret selected paintings and sculptures in the collection of Leeds Art Gallery.

19th century image which depict women as passive, submissive objects of female desire are of particular interest to them. Other themes, including gender, identity, myth, aging and the architecture and ‘power’ of the galleries are also a focus of their work.

Sayers works primarily with photographic and print-based images, whilst Lundgreen uses video and digital technology.

Their artworks are displayed in three different galleries, as ‘interventions’, in amongst the collection display that inspired them.

The exhibition is accompanied by gallery talks and evening lectures.