Main entry:

Marcoci, Roxana, editor, interviewer. edt

Title & Author:

Taking back our space : photographic perspectives / edited by Roxana Marcoci, Caitlin Ryan.

Publication:

New York, NY : The Museum of Modern Art, [2026]
New York, NY : Distributed in the United States and Canada by ARTBOOK/D.A.P., [2026]
London : Distributed outside the United States and Canada by Thames & Hudson, [2026]
©2026

Description:

xvi, 159 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 31 cm

Notes:
Published in conjunction with the exhibtition Taking back our space : Photographic perspectives at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, September 20, 2026-May 2, 2027.
Includes bibliographical references.
Politics of space / Roxana Marcoci and Caitlin Ryan -- Marianne Wex: Let's take back our space: "female" and "male" body language as a result of patriarchal structures, 1977 -- Marianne Wex in conversation with Roxana Marcoci and Madeline Weisburg -- Nona Faustine: White shoes, 2013-21 -- Nona Faustine in conversation with Lanka Tattersall -- Martine Gutierrez: Indigenous woman, 2018 -- Martine Gutierrez in conversation with Caitlin Ryan -- K8 Hardy: Position series, 2007-12 -- K8 Hardy in conversation with Stuart Comer -- Yuki Kihara: Paradise camp, 2020 -- Yuki Kihara in conversation with Nisa Mackie -- Joiri Minaya: Divergences, 2020-22 -- Joiri Minaya in conversation with Sophie Cavoulacos -- Paulina Olowska: Body movement alphabet studies, 2007 -- Paulina Olowska in conversation with Kaitlin Booher -- Wendy Red Star: Accession, 2019 -- Wendy Red Star in conversation with Joseph M. Pierce.

Summary:

"In 1972, the West German artist Marianne Wex began a visual survey of gendered body language. She picked up her camera and covertly photographed people in her hometown of Hamburg, observing how men and women were socialized to inhabit space differently. She also rephotographed pictures from advertisements, newspapers, magazines, film, television, and art catalogues, pasting the images onto boards organized into categories like 'standing arms,' 'sitting legs,' 'lying down,' and 'possessive holds.' For Wex, 'these mostly unconscious actions' were 'essential parts of our communication.' Presenting a robust selection, the exhibition also brings Wex's watershed feminist project into dialogue with contemporary artists Nona Faustine, Martine Gutierrez, K8 Hardy, Yuki Kihara, Joiri Minaya, Paulina Olowska, and Wendy Red Star. These contemporary practitioners reappraise the relationship of bodies to public space from Black, queer, and 21st-century feminist perspectives. In this context, the notion of 'taking back space' resonates as a reclamation of physical territory, historical narratives, and the ability to represent oneself."--Website MoMA.

ISBN:

9781633451865
1633451860

Subject:

Lyra-Wex, Marianne, 1937- Let's take back our space Exhibitions.
Photography, Artistic Exhibitions.
Body language in art Exhibitions.
Body image Exhibitions.
Personal space Pictorial works Exhibitions.
Spatial behavior Pictorial works Exhibitions.
Women artists Interviews.
Artists Interviews.
Photographs.
Photography.
Visual culture--United States
Interviews.
Photographies.
Entretiens.
Photographie artistique Expositions.
Espace personnel Ouvrages illustrés Expositions.
Femmes artistes Entretiens.
Artistes Entretiens.
photographs.

Added entries:

Faustine, Nona, artist, interviewee.
Gutierrez, Martine, 1989- artist, interviewee
Hardy, K8, artist, interviewee.
Kihara, Shigeyuki, 1975- artist, interviewee.
Lyra-Wex, Marianne, 1937- artist, interviewee.
Minaya, Joiri, 1990- artist, interviewee.
Ołowska, Paulina, artist, interviewee.
Red Star, Wendy, 1981- artist, interviewee
Ryan, Caitlin (Caitlin Elizabeth), editor, interviewer.
Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.), host institution.

Holdings:

Location: Library study room new acquisitions 326572
Call No.: 326572
Copy: 1
Status: Available