Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore, Untitled from the series Cancelled Confessions, 1928-29 Photomontage 22 x 17 cm
“Claude Cahun (Lucie Schwob) and Marcel Moore (Suzanne Malherbe) began their amour fou as stepsisters and teenagers in 1909. They remained in creative and romantic partnership for more than thirty years, creating photographs, illustrated books, fashion plates and stage sets. Having fled Paris for the Isle of Jersey early in the Second World War, they launched an anti-Nazi propaganda campaign that nearly resulted in their execution. In Aveux non avenues (Cancelled Confessions) Moore weaves photomontages with scraps of Cahun’s self portraits, themselves theatrical collaborations with Moore that offer a masquerade of queer tropes, staged collisions of gender signifiers and, most important, a contestation of female narcissism. The collages serve as chapter headings to Cahun’s patchwork of texts, this one leading off a section on sex. ‘Surely you are not claiming to be more homosexual than I?’ reads Cahun’s epigraph. In this image, various views of Cahun’s shaved head are aligned to place her in a lover’s relationship with herself.”
Catherine Lord, Art & Queer Culture (New York: Phaidon, 2013), 82.
…I am now looking for a better platform where it’s possible to share also the so called “adult content”, since many of my collages include artistic nudes, or parts of “explicit images”, and my blog it’s been flagged all over. Any suggestion is welcome.
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