Salomania
Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz
12.11.2011 - 28.01.2012, opening 12.11.2011
Salomania, 2009
installation with HD video and 13 black and white documents
video: 17 min
ed 5 + 2
courtesy Marcelle Alix, Paris & Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam
collections Museo Nacional Reina Sofia, Madrid (ES) and Kadist Foundation, Paris (FR)
[En français plus bas]
Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz stride along in libraries, spend time in archives, such as the ones of Magnus Hirschfeld, a sexologist and supporter of homosexuals? rights, or those of Arthur Munby, a British bourgeois, which retell the story of his sado-masochist relationship with a maid. Their films and installations reconstruct several objects of the past by overlaying different temporalities. They decipher and interpret a history of images that underlines social relations and class differences at play. Their method consists in giving back value to minority positions and their subversive power, by shattering a normalised, hetero-centered interpretation, which had turned the transvestite and the trans-genre into freaks.