Their diversified narratives punctuate the history of postmodern artists’ books while tracing the upheavals and the turning points related to corporeal identity, thus shifting from the most poetic to the most political. Inspired by this performative activation of the female body – often used as a strategy against the prevailing patriarchal power structures – the exhibition is completed by an appropriation work by Tiane Doan na Champassak who reifies and “museifies” three street collages by the feminist collective Féminicides (active in Paris since 2019) as well as by a selection of video excerpts from the early career of choreographer and performance artist Nancy Spanier, whose practice anticipated to a large extent many attitudes and themes reiterated in the genre discussion in the last decades, such as embodiment, existence, sexuality, intimacy and the politics of the body.

Curator, Larisa Oancea