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Exposition (Paperback)
Nathalie Leger; Translated by Amanda DeMarco
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Everything can be exhibited: trinkets from the Second French
Empire, a collection of photographs, a boudoir from beyond the
grave, a heroine famous for her beauty, her extravagance and her
pitiful end. Everything can be exposed: a woman for another
woman... , the fear of one's own body, a way of entering a scene,
the thrill of seduction, abandonment, the reassurance of objects, a
ruin. Over the course of four decades, the Countess Virginia
Oldoini returned to the same Paris studio to be photographed,
posing in different tableaux to mark the moments of her life, real
and imagined. A fascination with 'La Castiglione' led Nathalie
Leger to weave together this imaginative proto-biography.
Mysterious yet over-exposed, adored and despised for her beauty in
equal measure, Castiglione was a flamboyant aristocrat, mistress of
Napoleon III and a rumoured spy. Examining the myths around icons
past and present, Leger meditates on the half-truths of portrait
photography, reframing her own family history in the process.
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The White Dress (Paperback)
Nathalie Leger; Translated by Natasha Lehrer
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On 8 March 2008 the Italian performance artist Pippa Bacca set out
to hitchhike from Milan to Jerusalem in a wedding dress, documented
with a video camera. On 31 March her body was found in woods on the
outskirts of Istanbul. In telling the young woman's story, which
overwhelms her and inexorably draws her in, Leger recounts the
different stages of her research and the writing of the book. She
strikes upon something fundamental within Bacca's performance: the
desire to remedy the unfathomable nature of violence and war.
Ultimately, she must face up to the failure of the young woman's
endeavour. As she surveys the terrain of performance art and
continues her examination of portrayals of the female condition, as
in her earlier books, Leger explores the existential mystery and
harsh truths expressed in Bacca's work, and that of other
performance artists. The White Dress closes what is now regarded as
a trilogy that begins with Exposition and is followed by Suite for
Barbara Loden.
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