Even before the public start of ArtBasel, Andrea Bowers’s “Open Secret” generated a lot of discussion — just not in the way that the artist intended
Andrea Bowers’s Open Secret. Photo: FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP/Getty Images Leading up to this year’s Art Basel Unlimited, Artnet News identified what it believed would be the fair’s “biggest conversation piece” in the section dedicated to museum-scale installations: artist Andrea Bowers’s Open Secret, a massive piece of work documenting hundreds of men to be accused of sexual misconduct during the #MeToo movement.
Open Secret, which is set to make its public debut tomorrow at Art Basel in Switzerland, seeks to “[serve] as both a physical manifestation of patriarchy and a monument to the courage of survivors who are speaking out against sexual harassment and assault,” per an Instagram posted by Andrew Kreps, the New York gallery representing Bowers. According to Artnet News, it is priced at $300,000.
“It felt deeply exploitative,” she told the Cut. “And while I believe Bowers’s work is well-intentioned, to use women’s names and stories — and in Helen’s case, photographs of her face — without their consent in a work about consent strikes me as irresponsible at best.”
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