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Celebrating Goddesses of screen culture through fashion and glam

Female screen icons and local women leaders gathered at the red carpet opening of ACMI’s 'Goddess: Power, Glamour, Rebellion'.

6 Apr 2023

Celina Lei

Visual Arts

‘Dangerous designs’ featuring kimonos for Kiyoha (Anna Tsuchiya) in Sakuran (2006). Photo: Eugene Hyland.

Goddess: Power, Glamour, Rebellion is perhaps the most anticipated exhibition programmed at ACMI this year. It brings together material from over 120 years of screen culture to spotlight female icons and the ‘Goddess’ as a provocation.

First conceived five years ago, the exhibition was launched with a red carpet event at ACMI on Tuesday evening (4 April).

ArtsHub briefly spotted Hollywood actress and the exhibition’s ambassador, Geena Davis, during the red carpet arrivals, though she apparently departed before the crowd made it into the exhibition.

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Celina Lei

Celina Lei is an arts writer and editor at ArtsHub. She acquired her M.A in Art, Law and Business in New York with a B.A. in Art History and Philosophy from the University of Melbourne. She has previously worked across global art hubs in Beijing, Hong Kong and New York in both the commercial art sector and art criticism. She took part in drafting NAVA’s revised Code of Practice - Art Fairs and was the project manager of ArtsHub’s diverse writers initiative, Amplify Collective. Celina is based in Naarm/Melbourne.