Last Saturday I decided to visit an old friend called Feminism via Hannah Wilke’s exhibition at Alison Jacques Gallery. I had also just read for the first time about an artist called Joana Vasconcelos, showing at Haunch of Venison, whose work ‘focuses on the politics of gender, national identity and class’ so I decided to check that out too. At Brixton station I see a woman in front of me with a Feminist Library canvas bag. I remember the library was under constant threat of closure...[more]