Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the United Nations-declared International Women’s Year (1975), the exhibition charts the relationship between art, protest and social change over the last 50 years.

By facilitating a conversation between women and nonbinary artists across the decades, Protest is a creative act confirms that many of the issues addressed by women photographers in the 1970s around the body, sexuality, race, national identity and the environment have not been resolved.

These concerns are shared today by a younger generation of artists who build upon inheritances of the past, demonstrating their objection and defiance through new creative strategies. Collectively, the historical and contemporary works in the exhibition show the importance of friendship and community, and the good that can come from working together to advocate and agitate for change.