Cathy Jose­fowitz. The Think­ing Body
The Think­ing Body, so far the largest exhi­bi­tion of the work of Cathy Jose­fowitz (1956–2014), show­cases the entire range of her artis­tic output, in which paint­ings and draw­ings enter into a dia­logue with chore­og­ra­phy. The body – in motion and in rela­tion to other bodies – con­sti­tutes the core of her work. While Josefowitz’s exten­sive oeuvre was rarely exhib­ited during her life­time, the cos­mopoli­tan Swiss artist’s oeuvre now can be re-thought in the con­text of cur­rent dis­courses on fig­u­ra­tion, gender, the body, and identity.
Ini­ti­ated by the Kun­sthaus Lan­gen­thal and cura­tor Elise Lammer, the exhi­bi­tion was devel­oped as a joint project in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Centre cul­turel suisse in Paris and the MACRO Roma and will be on show in each of these insti­tu­tions suc­ces­sively between August 2021 and spring 2022. The exhi­bi­tion is sup­ported by the soci­ety Les Amis de Cathy Jose­fowitz, Arsenic, Centre d’art scénique con­tem­po­rain, Lau­sanne and La Becque | Rési­dence d’artistes, La Tour-de-Peilz.