Kirsha Kaechele divulged that she's the artist behind three paintings that she presented as works by Pablo Picasso as part of a gallery exhibition restricted to women visitors.
Kirsha Kaechelr, curator at New Zealand's Museum of Old and New Art , poses with a painting in Hobart, Australia. Kaechele has divulged on July 9, 2024, that she was the creator of three paintings that she presented as works by Pablo Picasso -- and which prompted a gender discrimination case in Tasmania when she only permitted women gallery patrons to view them.
“I imagined that a Picasso scholar, or maybe just a Picasso fan, or maybe just someone who googles things, would visit the Ladies Lounge and see that the painting was upside down and expose me on social media,” Kaechele wrote. But no one did. “The participation by visitors in the process of being permitted or refused entry is part of the artwork itself,” tribunal Deputy President Richard Grueber wrote in his decision, which found the exhibition was discriminatory.
Rather than admit men to the exhibit, Kaechele ― who is married to the gallery’s owner, David Walsh ― installed a working toilet in the space, turning it into a women’s restroom in order to exploit a legal loophole to allow the refusal of men to continue.
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