Taking Back Our Space
Photographic Perspectives
Will be published approx. on 7. July 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
176 pages
978-1-63345-186-5 (ISBN)
Description
A contemporary look at the impact of German artist Marianne Wex's landmark 1977 examination of body language and gender expectations
Coinciding with the first posthumous exhibition of Marianne Wex's expansive photographic survey of the gender dynamics of body language, Let's Take Back Our Space: 'Female' and 'Male' Body Language as a Result of Patriarchal Structures (1977), this unique volume brings Wex's work into conversation with seven contemporary artists whose works reappraise the relationship of bodies to public space from intersectional queer and feminist perspectives: Joiri Minaya, Nona Faustine, Martine Gutierrez, K8 Hardy, Yuki Kihara, Paulina Olowska, and Wendy Red Star.
Coinciding with the first posthumous exhibition of Marianne Wex's expansive photographic survey of the gender dynamics of body language, Let's Take Back Our Space: 'Female' and 'Male' Body Language as a Result of Patriarchal Structures (1977), this unique volume brings Wex's work into conversation with seven contemporary artists whose works reappraise the relationship of bodies to public space from intersectional queer and feminist perspectives: Joiri Minaya, Nona Faustine, Martine Gutierrez, K8 Hardy, Yuki Kihara, Paulina Olowska, and Wendy Red Star.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Illustrations
100 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 305 mm
Width: 240 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-63345-186-5 (9781633451865)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Roxana Marcoci is the Acting Chief Curator and David Dechman Senior Curator of Photography at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Caitlin Ryan is Assistant Curator in the Department of Photography at MoMA.
Caitlin Ryan is Assistant Curator in the Department of Photography at MoMA.
Content
¿ Introductory essay by Roxana Marcoci and Caitlin Ryan
¿ Interviews with Marianne Wex, Joiri Minaya, Nona Faustine, Martine Gutierrez, K8 Hardy, Yuki Kihara, Paulina Olowska, and Wendy Red Star
¿ List of Illustrations
¿ Interviews with Marianne Wex, Joiri Minaya, Nona Faustine, Martine Gutierrez, K8 Hardy, Yuki Kihara, Paulina Olowska, and Wendy Red Star
¿ List of Illustrations