(The National) Hunna Art gallery carves a space for contemporary female artists in the Gulf

(The National) Hunna Art gallery carves a space for contemporary female artists in the Gulf

"Art isn’t immune to gender inequality. Various surveys and research on representation and sales in the market have proven this time and again, including a 2019 study by In Other Words art agency and Artnet News revealing that works by women accounted for only 2 per cent of worldwide auction sales over nearly a 10-year period.

Gallerist Oceane Sailly, who is also part of an international research group that studies inequity in the art world, is aware of this. “In the US, Germany, France and the UK, when we look at the main art fairs and museum collections, there is still a huge discrepancy in terms of representation,” she says."

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Read the full article by Alexandra Chaves for The National here.

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