The overriding theme of this exhibition is 'picnic'. Women from different times and spaces are depicted ‘en plein air’ in a random, casual manner and in a fragmented patterned landscape. The concept of the picnic as a shared outdoors activity is a pertinent metaphor for our experience during the Covid-19 pandemic, where the changed relationship of the indoors as a claustrophobic, constraining space was alleviated by the limited time that one was permitted to be outdoors.
Conversations en Plein Air: Charlotte Hodes