VALIE EXPORT I Created My Own Identity, Artist Interview, Tate Shots

VALIE EXPORT is an Austrian avantgarde feminist artist best known for her photography and radical performances that raise discussions around the female body and the male gaze. VALIE was a mother and a housewife before beginning her artistic career when she moved to Vienna in the Sixties. Feminism at the time allowed you to choose who you are says EXPORT. Born as Waltraud Lehner, and later Waltraud Höllinger, in 1967, the artist dropped her fathers and husbands names to create her new identity as VALI