Speaking in general terms - On Feminism

Gender oppression has changed its colours, from auburns, to psychedelic, to neons and now to high definition.

“Feminism, a dated term but don’t be afraid of it” – I would happily categorize my art as feminist art, if it denotes empowerment to female sexuality. However, I would hate to stop there.
My work is about exploring the self, gender, aesthetics, physicality, consumerism, capitalism, the physcosexual and society. To conclude a feminist as an equal-rights-protesting-man-hater is not only lazy but boorish. Feminism has not had deserving accolades. Take Modernism, modernism has cultivated its strands, Abstraction, Minimalism, Dada, Post-modernism etc. the volumes of academic literature obsessing in these developments has been consumed by the art world but Feminist art and its strands have had little honours.
Feminism is a constant battle; the actual fight entails a kind of tribute to historical art genii and the sorrowful ambivalence of female dominance/participation in all the definitive movements that have ultimately shaped art today. It is difficult for me not to think of movements now in a very nonrepresentational way. Today, Post-modernism and conceptualism has found a way to detach itself from the open and municipal, in fact the great 50 influential have endorsed fine art to be incoherent, elitist and supressing. Movements like Stuckism is forlorn against the Saatchi and Serpentine, Intentism, a new movement that reverts the power back to the artist looks set to be like Stuckism – in a way that gender issues have been flouted for abstracted self-expression in the forms of coloured squares and geometric forms.
Is the feminist wall self victimizing? The iconic Marina Abramovich declares herself NOT as a feminist artist. Should we question the feminist fight? The battle of the underdog is wearisome, in the consideration that the first feminist art movement flourished in the late 60’s, the fight for equality has no end. Gender oppression has changed its colours, from auburns, to psychedelic, to neons and now to high definition. Feminism needs a contemporary intervention as it has come in a single handed form; Tracey Emin. In the fight to expand, to enrich female artists there should a freedom of expression but our own freedom to oppress, criticise and tyrannize is also empowerment. Francis Bacon depicted modern man lost in tragic existence and until women can authorize an existential crisis, that is accepted equally to a man’s existence then that is when feminism will be a dated term.