CLAUDE CAHUN & SARAH PUCILL – MAGIC MIRROR
2015-05-11Sharing an engagement with Surrealism, the layering of Pucill and Cahun’s work embraces the uncanny in relation to the inanimate. Their work explores the idea of a multiple ‘self’ and of looking, as both artists assert a queer gaze between mirror, camera and across two centuries.
Pucill’s film Magic Mirror combines a re-staging of Cahun’s photographs and visualisation of written text from her book Aveux non avenus (Disavowals), transforming Cahun’s work from still to moving image, whilst exploring the relationship between word, photography and sound in film.
Called ‘one of the most curious spirits of our time’ by André Breton, the exhibition will offer a unique perspective on the work of Cahun, who used subversive avant-garde art practice as a form of resistance in Nazi occupied Jersey during WW2.
Opposite – Polar Bear by Henrik Sorensen
Opposite – Self-Portrait, Silver gelatin print on paper, 1929
Exhibition runs through to June 14th, 2015
The Nunnery
Bow Arts, 181 Bow Rd
London
E3 2SJ
