Cut Out: A Feminist History of Photo Collage, Montage and Assemblage

Cut Out presents the previously untold relationship between photography, feminist art, and collage through the V&A’s extensive collection of photography, spanning from the nineteenth century to the present day.

Female artists have long employed collage to reflect the ways in which identity is often constructed from conflicting, contrasting, and contradictory parts. Cut Out explores the relationship between photography and feminist collage, foregrounding the use of femmage—a radical reclaimin...