Claude Cahun was working a few century forward of her time. Lately her images have gained a big viewers, due to her experimental cosplay, which challenged gender binaries. Along with her associate Marcel Moore (each artists’ names had been pseudonyms), Cahun labored first in Paris within the Twenties, after which in Dover on the outbreak of the Second World Conflict. The travelling Hayward Gallery exhibition ‘Claude Cahun: Beneath this Masks’ is at the moment exhibiting at Lakeside Arts in Nottingham (till 17 March 2024).
Claude Cahun: Beneath this Masks
The primary iteration of the exhibition opened as a part of the Girls of the World Pageant in 2017, and the present’s curator Gillian Fox has seen how a lot the context of Cahun and Moore’s boundary-pushing work has modified even in that point. ‘It’s turning into astoundingly extra present because it goes on,’ she says, referencing mainstream attitudes in the direction of gender expression, which have turn out to be extra conservative within the final decade, and the rising curiosity in cosplay. ‘She was so astoundingly forward of the curve and I feel her work has gained in its forex.’
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