To Valerie Solanas and Marilyn Monroe in Recognition of their Desperation

Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz

To Valerie Solanas and Marilyn Monroe in Recognition of their Desperation, 2013Price on Request
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installation avec un film super 16mm transféré sur fichier numérique hdMarcelle Alix
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This striking image depicts a woman in a gray bodysuit scaling a set of dimly lit concrete stairs. The stark contrast between the dark, angular staircase and the vibrant green railings creates a visually compelling composition. The woman's dynamic pose, with one leg extended and the other bent, suggests a sense of motion and athleticism. The image's chiaroscuro lighting and monochromatic palette evoke a sense of mystery and tension, hinting at the artist's possible intention to explore themes of physical and emotional struggle. This contemporary photograph showcases the artist's skill in capturing the human form in an unconventional urban setting, inviting the viewer to ponder the narrative beyond the frame. ...

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Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz
Artist
Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz
B.1981

Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz have been working together in Berlin since 2007. They produce installations that choreograph the tension between visibility and opacity. Their films capture performances in front of the camera, often starting with a song, a picture, a film or a score from the near past. They upset normative historical narratives and conventions of spectatorship, as figures and actions across time are staged, layered and re-imagined. Their performers are choreographers, artists and musicians, with whom they are having a long-term conversation about the conditions of performance, the violent history of visibility, the pathologization of bodies, but also about companionship, glamour and resistance. ...

Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz: Artworks
Dancefloor Piece (rhythmic modes of belonging IV)
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Opaque
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Salomania
Pauline Boudry / Renate LorenzSalomania, 2009Price on Request
To Valerie Solanas and Marilyn Monroe in Recognition of their Desperation
Pauline Boudry / Renate LorenzTo Valerie Solanas and Marilyn Monroe in Recognition of their Desperation, 2013Price on Request
Untitled
Pauline Boudry / Renate LorenzUntitled, 20215300 EUR
Wall Necklace Piece (otherworldly I)
Pauline Boudry / Renate LorenzWall Necklace Piece (otherworldly I), 2022Price on Request
Wall Necklace Piece (unpredictable assembly II)
Pauline Boudry / Renate LorenzWall Necklace Piece (unpredictable assembly II), 2022Price on Request
Wig piece (Entangled Phenomena IV)
Pauline Boudry / Renate LorenzWig piece (Entangled Phenomena IV), 201810600 EUR
Wig Piece (Entangled Phenomena VI)
Pauline Boudry / Renate LorenzWig Piece (Entangled Phenomena VI), 201910600 EUR
Les Gayrillères
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Marcelle Alix
Gallery
Marcelle Alix
Paris

We founded Marcelle Alix in 2009 in Paris and settled in a characteristic, early 20th-century boutique in Belleville. The gallery is for us a creative space, where the dialog with artists is not only meant to selling artworks, but is also based on an equal relationship to creativity. We now represents thirteen artists and two duos. Our identity has been built with the support of the artists who opened our programme (Aurélien Froment, Louise Hervé & Clovis Maillet, Charlotte Moth, Ernesto Sartori, Marie Voignier) and those we introduced to the French art scene (Pauline Boudry/Renate Lorenz, Ian Kiaer, Donna Gottschalk). During these years, we have supported broad artistic careers (Laura Lamiel, Liz Magor and Mira Schor whose work we represent exclusively in Europe) and accompanied the development of new perspectives in sculpture (Gyan Panchal, Jean-Charles de Quillacq) in video (Lola Gonzàlez), and in drawing (Armineh Negahdari). Our gallery has been a pioneer in defining a space for queer art in France : in addition to showing her work within the artist duo Boudry/Lorenz since 2011, we have directed the translation into French of Renate Lorenz's 2012 seminal book, « Queer Art » in 2018. Since 2019, we have exhibited photographs by Donna Gottschalk documenting the lives of women living with women who were involved in the lesbian movement in the United States in the 1970s. In 2023 we organised an exhibition for the Utopi.e award—first award in France for Lgbtqi+ art—for which we have invited Paris galleries Air de Paris and Sultana as fellow participants. We insist on the central role of a gallery in the ecosystem of art as a place to make idiosyncratic positions visible and weave a critical narrative around the most contemporary visual forms. ...