The body as the subject and object of the work.

The body as the ultimate intimate and private entity in maximum public exposure.

The body as a sense of limitation in action and as a symbol of freedom and potentiality in performance.

The body encompasses history, memory, time, emotions, material and immaterial.

The Memory Program documents the emergence of women in the art world through cultural practices from the 1960s to the 1980s, giving voice to a contemporary manifestation of women's role in the art field.

Women artists have reclaimed physicality, materiality, gender, and sexuality within the body, challenging the historical models and canons that originated from a male, white, and Western per-spective. The body thus becomes the measuring unit that connects them with the surrounding world.

Inspired by Jackson Pollock's action painting, this new form of modern and contemporary expression empowers female artists to assert their right to "be" through their own bodies.