Reframed: The Woman in the Window

Gerrit Dou, A Woman Playing a Clavichord, c.1665, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London.

Featuring artworks from ancient civilisations to present day, Reframed: The Woman in the Window brings together over 50 works by artists including Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, David Hockney, Louise Bourgeois, Cindy Sherman, Wolfgang Tillmans and Rachel Whiteread to reveal how artists have long used the motif to elicit a particular kind of response ranging from empathy to voyeurism. Featuring sculpture, painting, print, photography, film and installation art, the exhibition identifies the key geographic locations, cultures and time periods for which the ‘woman in the window’ had a particular meaning and what the motif reveals about issues of gender and visibility.