Curatorial Tour – Le corps et son vêtement (FR)
With Anaël Daoud, assistant curator
| When |
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| What | General public Tours |
| Where | Galleries |
| Related exhibition | Kaihō: Japanese Women Artists after 1945 |
| Access | Free |
| Max. attendance | 20 |
| Tickets | Book your place |
Organised into thematic sections, Kaihō 解放: Japanese Women Artists after 1945 provides an insight into dynamic cultural exchanges and the forgotten margins of modernism. Drawing from the artists’ personal lives, creative resilience and transnational activism, the exhibition brings together works by Atsuko Tanaka, Yayoi Kusama, Yoko Ono, Fujiko Nakaya, Tomie Ohtake, Taeko Tomiyama and Yoshiko Shimada, among many others – some of which have rarely, if ever, been shown outside of Japan. From Gutai to experiments in video art, Kaihō explores the radical yet often overlooked contributions of women artists from Japan to global postwar art movements.
For this special tour, the curatorial team invites the audience to discover the exhibition not through its main narrative, but a thematic perspective. The body, and its garment, is a recurring protagonist in many of the artworks on display – wounded, desired, in love, in movement and in drag, cyborg, reclaimed. This tour proposes an embodied reading, one in which artists stage their own reckoning with memory, imperialism, gender or emancipation.
Discover the exhibition through the lens of assistant curator Anaël Daoud.
