Moi-même (faute de mieux)

The exhibition “Moi-même (faute de mieux)” aims to bring Claude Cahun‘s work into dialogue with the works of a number of gallery artists, in order to highlight the common threads that link this historical artist to those who are contemporary to us. The topics addressed by Claude Cahun, such as disguise, transformation, metamorphosis and questions of identity and gender, are also found in the work of Romina De Novellis, Marie Denis, Christian Fogarolli, Luciana Lamothe and João Vilhena. Moreover, the connections between the works of these six artists is also visible from an iconographic point of view, independently from the medium.

The title of the exhibition refers to the part II of the autobiographical book “Aveux non avenus”, written between 1918-1929 by Claude Cahun. This introspective book is a true journey in search of the self, a self-portrait, a quest for the possible definition of “who am I?”.