Why has the video become the most popular medium to explore the themes regarding female identity? 

"Sweetie" tried to answer to these questions through the works of 24 British female artists working in particular with video in the last twenty years.

The videos presented in the exhibition, subdivided into two sections (one on the Eighties, the other one on the Nineties), exemplified this output which has contributed to redefining the identify of the video in Great Britain and its role in the visual arts over the last two decades.

Their images talked about love, anger, desire, loneliness, play, sex and pain, revealing a perceptive and ironic attitude towards the ideological mechanism which generates stereotypes and clichés and demonstrating that identity is not a concept to affirm anymore but to subvert.

80's 

Tamara Krikorian, Unassembled Information, 1997, 10'

Louise Forshaw, Hammer and Knife, 1987, 2'

Catherine Elwe, Spring, 1998, 9'

Kate Meynell, Hannah's Song, 1987, 8'

Sandra Golbacher, Polka Dots and Moonbeams, 1983, 13'

Tina Keane, Faded Wallpaper, 1988, 14'
 

90'lar

Smith and Stewart, Dead Red, 1994, 3'

Sarah Pucill, Backcomb, 1995, 6'

Victoria Oldham, Sleepless, 1998, 3'

Monika Oechsler, Necking, 1997, 1'35''

Sam Taylor, Wood, Knackered, 1996, 6'

Clio Barnard, Hermaphrodite Bikini, 1995, 5'

Jaki Irvine, Eyelashes, 1993, 6'

Tracey Emin, Why I Never Became a Dancer, 1995, 10'

Elaine Foster, God, Can You Hear Me?, 1997, 6'

Angela Bulloch and Slyvie Fleury, Should I Stay or Should I Go?, 1993, 4'

Tracey Emin, Gillian Wearing, Georgina Starr, Carl Freedman, 1996, 6'

Christina Mackie, Meeting, 1993, 2'

Louisa Fitch, Bad Day, 1997, 2'30''

Ann Course, Ann(I)Mated, 1994, 3'

Miranda Pennell, Habit, 1997, 5'

Seonad Mackay & Vivienne Cherry, Book, 1995, 2'

Sarah Miles, I love You, 1991, 1'
 
>>>"SWEETIE", by Cristiana Perrella