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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Helena Smith in Athens

YOU WONT BELIEVE: Would a world run by women be a better place athens museum hosts a bold female takeover - What They Never Told You

A clock, the silhouette of women sitting under a circular hanging and the sign
The 2021 anti-war film Two Minutes to Midnight by Israeli artist Yael Bartana is a highlight of the exhibition What if Women Ruled the World at the EMST contemporary art museum in Athens. Photograph: Birgit Kaulfuss/Courtesy of Capitain Petzel Gallery, Berlin; Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam; Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv; Galleria Rafaella Cortese, Milan and

An all-female cabinet faces nuclear crisis. What do they do? Take their threatened country into confrontation, stick with their anti-war principles or give in to the Trumpian figure threatening to press the button?

These are some of the questions that audiences in the screening room of Greece’s national museum of contemporary art, EMST, are asked to contemplate by the Israeli artist Yael Bartana. Her anti-war film Two Minutes to Midnight is one of the highlights of the institution’s latest exhibition cycle What if Women Ruled the World?.

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