Agnes Denes on Feminism, Conceptualism, and Psychograph

In a 2008 interview published by Afterall in 2012, Agnes Denes discusses her involvement in Lucy Lippard's feminist Conceptual show 'c.7,500'. Denes contributed her Psychograph project (1970) and early Philosophical Drawings. She recalls that the Conceptual art scene of the 1970s was male-dominated and that she was excluded from a show organized by Seth Siegelaug. Denes reflects on her work Wheatfield – A Confrontation (1982) as a political act addressing world trade, economics, and ecology, though she does not consider herself a political artist. She also discusses her philosophical drawings, including The Human Argument, which adds a lie table to logic. Denes states she never separates art by gender, only by quality and talent, and chose to fight discrimination by making great art rather than protesting.