Her Brush is kin with the growing number of women-only presentations that reveal a fact hiding in plain sight: great women artists existed everywhere at all times.
SOMETIME IN JANUARY 2016, the Instagram profile known as “@whos＿＿who” went live. Who is who? A big question, in general. Anonymous and prolific, the account places apparently similar images, usually of artworks, in comparative assemblies published as single posts. At minimum, these posts feature two artworks, but often three, four, or more crowd the frame. Offered without explanation by their anonymous comparer, the resulting combos of artworks are blank screens for their beholders’ projections. The act signed @whos＿＿who was inaugurated by a jaunty pairing of two works side by side: one by Nicole
SOMETIME IN JANUARY 2016, the Instagram profile known as “@whos＿＿who” went live. Who is who? A big question, in general. Anonymous and prolific, the account places apparently similar images, usually of artworks, in comparative assemblies published as single posts. At minimum, these posts feature two artworks, but often three, four, or more crowd the frame. Offered without explanation by their anonymous comparer, the resulting combos of artworks are blank screens for their beholders’ projections. The act signed @whos＿＿who was inaugurated by a jaunty pairing of two works side by side: one by Nicole
Biographical Note
Vladimir Biti is Professor Emeritus of Slavic and Comparative Literature at the University of Vienna, currently Distinguished Chair Visiting Professor at Zhejiang University. His most recent monograph is
Attached to Dispossession, (Brill, 2018). Upcoming:
Post-imperial Literature:Translatio imperii
in Kafka and Coetzee.
Joep Leerssen is Professor of Modern European Literature at the University of Amsterdam and holds a part-time research professorship at the University of Maastricht. He is the editor of the
Encyclopedia of Romantic Nationalism in Europe(Amsterdam UP, 2018). His most recent books are
Comparative Literature in Britain: National Identities, Transnational Dynamics, 1800â2000 (Legenda 2019) and
Parnell and his Times (ed.; Cambridge UP, 2020).