Female artists have long employed collage techniques to reflect the ways in which identity is often constructed from conflicting, contrasting, and contradictory parts. Cut Out: A Feminist History of Photo Collage, Montage and Assemblage is a new V&A and Thames & Hudson publication which explores the relationship between photography and feminist collage, foregrounding the use of femmage—a radical reclaiming of craft traditionally associated with women—as a resilient method within feminist and political art.
This symposium will explore key themes of the book: women’s collage practices prior to Modernism’s claim to the form; the materiality of photography in the lives and work of women artists; the use of found or discarded images as gestures of resistance and resilience; and the significance of domestic space in shaping women’s cultural production.
Speakers include Martha Rosler, Linder, Jazz Grant, Liz Siegel, Freya Gowrley, Linder, Tania Sanabria, Jazz Grant, Maya Inès Touam, Sarah Sense, Thato Toeba, Bindi Vora and Renée Mussai.
Funded by the V&A Parasol Foundation Women in Photography Project.
Details of the new book are here: https://www.thamesandhudsonusa.com/books/cut-out-a-feminist-history-of-photo-collage-montage-and-assemblage-hardcover
Cut Out: Feminist Collage Symposium
6 May 2026 from 1315-1815, in person
London, V&A Museum, £5
6 May 2026 from 1315-1815, in person
London, V&A Museum, £5
Full programme and booking here: https://www.vam.ac.uk/event/BWxvkyg0RO/cut-out-feminist-collage-symposium-may-2026
