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From: No thank you Category: Art Date: 28 July 2009 Time: 07:01 AM Review: At the Hayward gallery 7 men show their work along side 3 women, in an exhibition titled Walking in My mind. With so much of our culture dominated by a male outlook (I think of films, television, advertising, art and theatre) I am not sure that I find it necessary to be exposed yet more to the workings of male minds, yet here as else where I don’t seem to be able find as many women as men on show. Certainly I don't really want to be reminded of the kind of misogyny to be found in so many minds, as described by Jason Rhodes in his "The Creation Myth". The use of hard-core pornography is taken for granted, it seems that there is no need to contextualise this kind of sexism, to explain its background, and the un-analysed world view it comes from- as one might contextualise the subjects described in Louise Bourgeois' work. The use of pornography in art only serves to perpetuate what is already a pernicious and destructive aspect of gender relations. There is not much in many men's minds that we need to know about now and I am bored their imagination which seems to reach to the end of their redundant penises, and not much further.