“London PhD rapidly may have attacked 60 women” says the newspaper on the evening London artist Aida Wilde’s new show opens. International Woman’s Day is this weekend and the misbehaving male is getting doing over the headlines say is required.
Aida, printmaker extraordinaire and street artist, came to the UK when her family fled Iran in the 80s following the political murder of her father. Throughout her art career and her professional activities printing for other artists Aida has felt the impact of gender discrimination. There isn’t a context in which that box “Other” should ever be acceptable but through direct experience Aida certainly understand the challenges.
Aida’s printed banners make no apologies. Her art screams accusations, bellows its requirements, dictates the behavioural changes required, it hits hard and makes it point. This is the antidote to that despicable self proclaimed misogynist Andrew Tate currently holed up in Florida.
It’s a total takeover installation, it’s an artist doing something conceptual and expressing themselves, This is not art with a price tag, it’s not a shop window in fact when I made that point Aida agreed and said that that’s why nothing in this show is for sale. This is not another art show selling ideal art for the ideal home, it’s quite exceptional.
Check Aida’s instagram, link below, for details of a full programme of events this weekend including printing workshops.
Just one quibble – shouldn’t every day be Woman’s Day?
Aida Wilde – Other
6-9 March 2025
The Corner Space
123 Bethnal Green Road, E2 7DG
LINKS
Aida Wilde instagram
Supported by Form.d
All photos: Dave Stuart