Grit Hachmeister: Grit

By Grit Hachmeister

There are certain images that provoke us. Take, for example, the photograph of Jane Birkin, in which she stands leaning casually against a door with a cigarette in one hand and the other in her trousers--a detail that you don't see at first glance. A groundbreaking image that was seen in the 1970s as an act of female self-emancipation. Grit Hachmeister copied the pose in 2007 and its effect is just as startling as the original. The artist has a series of such pictures in her oeuvre: people dressed in nothing but a pair of shoes engaged in various sexual practices. There's plenty of fumbling around and coupling here--being human is a messy business. Hachmeister now presents her first monograph, a collection of drawings, self-portraits, visual narratives, and staged photographs that were produced over the last ten years and provide a showcase for the artist's humorous, gender-critical work.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3959050011
• ISBN13: 9783959050012
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Spector Books
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.3" x 11.6"