EXHIBITION: ELSA & JOHANNA
CLIMBING INTO ANOTHER SKIN – THE MANY LIVES OF ELSA AND JOHANNA
4/03/2024
In the focus of the exhibition stands the duo’s latest project, which explores female identity by looking at the hidden emotions of the characters. The point of departure for « Ce que vaut une femme : Les douze heures du jour et de la nuit » (What a Woman is Worth: The Twelve Hours of Day and Night) was a book found in an attic, a 1893 tome on the moral and practical education of young girls, whose content the artists found equally edifying and comical. The works, which evoke a sense of nostalgia, explore the diversity of identity in the spaces of the house and the settings of personal space, highlighting the multiple characters inherent in a personality and the possibilities of individual freedom.