Journal Notes from Backstage
Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz
21.03.2014 - 17.05.2014, opening 21.03.2014
Toxic, 2012
installation with HD video and documentation
13 min
ed 5 + 2
exhibition view, Les Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers, 2012
photo: Ouidade Soussi-Chiadmi
courtesy Marcelle Alix, Paris & Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam
collection GAM, Torino (IT) and CNAP, Paris (FR)
To Valerie Solanas and Marilyn Monroe in Recognition of their Desperation, 2013
installation of a Super 16mm film transferred to HD file
18 min
ed 5 + 2
courtesy Marcelle Alix, Paris & Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam
collection FRAC Franche-Comté, Besançon (FR)
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We come back with pleasure to the eccentric beauty of the films and installations of Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz. Their works always call for us to explore the best part of ourselves, this freedom and utmost openness we would like to practice each and every day, forsaking the social codes which impede us.
In an elated group spirit, they master to perfection the elaboration of letting go moments, which enable us to consider in a definitive queer mode the very contemporary subject of the cultural construction of identities.
In "Choosing the margin as a space of radical openness" (1), the author, teacher and militant feminist, bell hooks, imagines [...]
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