Pause Journal: Carole A. Feuerman's censored sculptures on display for the first time in New York

The Museum of Sex brings to light Feuerman's 50-year silent revolution regarding the body and representation, a pioneer of superrealist art.

The early works of Carole A. Feuerman, one of the founding female figures of superrealist sculpture, produced in the late 1970s but censored due to the cultural climate of the period, are meeting the audience for the first time in almost half a century. This retrospective titled “Long Island Girl”, which opened at the Museum of Sex in New York, not only makes visible the artist’s works that have been overshadowed until now; it also allows for the re-reading of figurative sculpture in the context of gender. The exhibition establishes a visual as well as an intellectual plane, moving towards the political depths of representation and gaze rather than the aesthetic surface of the body.