{"id":854,"date":"2021-05-06T08:42:04","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T06:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danaepanchaud.net\/?page_id=854"},"modified":"2022-03-03T13:53:29","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T12:53:29","slug":"an-apparition-of-memory","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/danaepanchaud.net\/index.php\/articles-and-essays\/an-apparition-of-memory\/","title":{"rendered":"An Apparition of Memory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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2021 |\u00a0Christophe Guye Galerie
Exhibition text for Brigitte Lustenberger’s solo exhibition An Apparition of Memory<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Excerpts:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While many of her past series contain elements from her personal life, A Gaze of One\u2019s Own<\/em>, titled in reference to Virginia Woolf\u2019s essay A Room of One\u2019s Own<\/em>, is her first project explicitly grounded in her own experience and in which she is, as an artist, turning her gaze on her own intimacy and body. This project takes on issues linked to the artistic and cultural representations of the female body and to the reclaiming of the gaze, against the background of her own aging and changing body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her work has always been informed by her extensive knowledge\u2009\u2013\u2009or rather her remarkable assimilation\u2009\u2013\u2009of the history of photography. While it is not possible to pinpoint a single seminal influence in her work, her images effortlessly give nods to works from Man Ray, Balthasar Burkhard, Edward Weston or Francesca Woodman, to name a few. A Gaze of One\u2019s Own<\/em> is nonetheless resolutely contemporary in its approach. It retains a performative dimension that has been characteristic of significant feminist artistic practices from the 1970s onward and is equally connected to the performance of self-representation shaped by social media over the last decade, which expanded the realm of self-representation with countless tools\u2009\u2013\u2009and the accompanying norms\u2009\u2013\u2009to edit and reshape bodies and features.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her project reflects on and echoes the intensity of one\u2019s relation to one\u2019s body in the 21st century, the need to look at it, and to craft an image of one\u2019s own. It confronts and combines imperatives which are sometimes conflicting in this particular era: reclaiming the gaze while offering a form of self-representation. Almost over a century ago, Woolf\u2019s argued for a literal and figurative space for female writers. At the beginning of the 21st<\/sup> century, Lustenberger engages in a similar process towards the emancipation of her own gaze. It is informed by, but liberated from, centuries of primarily male representations of the naked female body: \u2018I photograph myself, because I cannot objectify myself.<\/em>‘<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Image: Brigitte Lustenberger, from the series A Gaze of One’s Own<\/em>. Courtesy Christophe Guye Galerie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2021 |\u00a0Christophe Guye GalerieExhibition text for Brigitte Lustenberger’s solo exhibition An Apparition of Memory Excerpts: While many of her past series contain elements from her personal life, A Gaze of One\u2019s Own, titled in reference to Virginia Woolf\u2019s essay A Room of One\u2019s Own, is her first project explicitly grounded in her own experience and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":622,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-854","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danaepanchaud.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danaepanchaud.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danaepanchaud.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danaepanchaud.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danaepanchaud.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/danaepanchaud.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":856,"href":"https:\/\/danaepanchaud.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/854\/revisions\/856"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danaepanchaud.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danaepanchaud.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}