Ce qui fait une vie
Donna Gottschalk
06.04.2023 - 20.05.2023, opening 06.04.2023
Marlene Elling, Eugene, Oregon, 1974
gelatin silver print on paper
21,2 x 32,1 cm
27,7 x 35,5cm
ed 3 + 2
Lesbian Woman living in a packing crate, Truro, Massachusetts, 1974
digital print
13,6 x 19,3 cm
28 x 21,6 cm
ed 15
Sans titre, 1973
digital print
13,6 x 19,3 cm
28 x 21,6 cm
ed 15
Marlene Elling, my best friend, Eugene, Oregon, 1974
gelatin silver print on paper
21,2 x 32,1 cm
27,7 x 35,5 cm
ed 3 + 2
Nancy Lewis and Ericka, 1969
digital print
13,6 x 19,3 cm
28 x 21,6 cm
ed 15
Sally and Mama, 1973
gelatin silver print
20,7 x 14 cm
21,8 x 14,9 cm
unique
Joan Biren, my lover, E. 9th St., NYC, 1970
silver gelatin print on paper
21,5 x 33 cm
27,7 x 35,5cm
ed 3 + 2
Myla Gottschalk, age 12, E 9th ST., NYC, 1969
gelatin silver print on paper
11 x 17,2 cm
20,5 x 25,5 cm
21 x 26,3 cm
ed 3 + 2
Sue Katz and Nikki, San Francisco, California, 1975
silver print on paper
33,5 x 22 cm
43 x 31 cm
44,5 x 32,5 cm
ed 3 + 2
Donna, 1976
gelatin silver print on paper
18 x 19 cm
27x 28 cm
unique
Lesbian Family, San Francisco, California, 1973
silver gelatin print
22 x 30,25 cm
58 x 53 cm
ed 3 + 1
Sleepers, Revolutionary Women's Conference, Limerick, Pennsylvania, 1970
silver gelatin print
31 x 40,6 cm
55 x 72 cm
58 x 73 cm
ed 3 + 2
Myla in Mary's dress, 1973
gelatin silver print on paper
12 x 18 cm
21,6 x 26,8 cm
unique
Self-Portrait, circa 1970
color print on paper
24 x 19 cm
33 x 27,7 cm
unique
Sue Katz in big chair, San Francisco, California, 1973
gelatin silver print on paper
21,2 x 32,1 cm
29 x 39 cm
30 x 40,5 cm
ed 3 + 2
Hell's Gate, NYC, 1978
digital print
12 x 17,3 cm
28 x 21,6 cm
ed 15
Myla in California, 1973
gelatin silver print on paper
18,2 x 12 cm
27 x 21 cm
unique
Amber Hollibaugh, gay activist and writer, San Francisco, California, 1974
gelatin silver print on paper
32,1 x 21,2 cm
35,5 x 27,7 cm
ed 3 + 2
Marlene Elling and Vincent Gottschalk in Tompkins square, NYC, 1993
gelatin silver print on paper
21,25x 32 cm
30 x 41 cm
30,5 x 41,5cm
ed 3 + 2
Peggy Hozan, fellow cabdriver, 1973
silver gelatin print
13,6 x 19,3 cm
12,8 x 18,5
unique
Auto Shop Owners, Berkeley, California, 1973
silver gelatin print
31,15 x 20,4 cm
55 x 39,5 cm
58 x 42,5 cm
ed 3 + 1
Dykes for an Amerikan Revolution, Washington D.C., 1971
silver gelatin print
27,8 x 25 cm
27,7 x 35,5cm
ed 3 + 2
Young Lesbian, Provincetown, Massachusetts, 1974
gelatin silver print on paper
32,1 x 21,2 cm
35,5 x 27,7 cm
ed 3 + 2
Helaine on her girlfriend's lap, Provincetown, Massachusetts, 1974
silver gelatin print
31,15 x 20,4 cm
58 x 40,27 cm
ed 3 + 1
My roomate Chris during transition, 1970
silver gelatin print
32,5 x 47
43 x 58 cm
44,5 x 59,5 cm
ed 3 + 2
Marlene Elling, age 23, E. 9th St., NYC, 1968
silver gelatin print
48 x 32,5 cm
60 x 43,5 cm
ed 3 + 2
Myla in Mary's dress, age 16, San Francisco, California, 1973
gelatin silver print on paper
32 x 21 cm
41,5 x 29,5 cm
42 x 30 cm
ed 3 + 2
Backstage at the Limelight Nightclub, 1976
silver gelatin print
27,8 x 25 cm
27,7 x 35,5cm
ed 3 + 2
Myla, age 16, San Francisco, California, 1973
color print on paper
48,5 x 32 cm
58 x 42 cm
43,5 x 59,5 cm
ed 3 + 2
In 2019, we invited American photographer and lesbian feminist activist Donna Gottschalk to take part in the exhibition "de l’amitié" that we conceived to celebrate the place given to our shared imaginaries in the gallery and to extend a lover’s discourse in charge of accompanying forms created for and with others. With the support of writer and art theoretician Hélène Giannecchini, whose ongoing research focuses on queer archives and memory, our greatest desire is to tell what makes up the life of Donna and that of her close ones. These lives are presented in our gallery space through a large collection of photographs that the artist entrusted to us, starting with the bond that we have nurtured remotely over the past four years and the very strong tie that Hélène created by visiting, in a snowy Vermont, the woman who, in the 1970s, helped transform our understanding of identities, of self and of community--of its fragility and its strength — by photographing singular lives or what looks like a promise of unity.