The Female Gaze

Room 4 of the current Andy Warhol exhibition at Tate Modern is titled 'The Factory', an experimental art studio and social space set up in 1963 and covered in silver paint and foil. It was the setting for the mass production of Warhol's silkscreen canvases and the site of his new interest in underground film making.

Warhol documented the people who passed through the Factory in his Screen Tests from 1964-6 and presented them as film portraits. The subjects were simply left to be themselves and sat in front of the camera with nothing to do but endure its gaze for the duration of the film reel.

Extra shows the whole room.

If you are unable to make it to the exhibition, the Tate have a curators tour video here.