Claude Cahun, self-portraits of a poetic libertarian
Claude Cahun (1894-1954) estuvo asociada en ideas y esfuerzos con los surrealistas, al igual que su pareja la escenógrafa, ilustradora y también fotógrafa Marcel Moore, con quien compartía esa confusión de géneros que tanto retrató, si bien las obras parecían hacer las funciones de trabajo íntimo para investigación de su propia identidad pues fueron poco conocidas en vida. Ataviada con atrezzo y maquillaje, parece situarse, en la tradición de otros sui generis como Pierre Molinier aunque menos sexual, en un terreno que rompe con su propia clasificación de género. Con su pareja formó parte activa de la Resistencia francesa a los nazis, lo que incluía repartir anónimamente poemas y panfletos y les valdría ser finalmente encarceladas y sentenciadas a muerte hasta su salvación por fuerzas liberadoras, aunque supuso que gran parte de la producción de ambas fuera destruida.
Claude Cahun (1894-1954) was associated in ideas and efforts with the surrealists, as well as her partner the scenographer, illustrator and also photographer Marcel Moore, with whom she shared the confusion of genres that she portrayed so much, although it seemed more like an intimate work, like self investigation of identity, since the images were little known in life. Dressed up with props and make-up, she seems to place herself, in the tradition of other rare avis like Pierre Molinier although less sexual, in a particular terrain that breaks the mold of her classification as masculine or feminine. With her partner she became an active part of the French Resistance to the Nazis, which included anonymously handing out poems and flyers and finally had them jailed and sentenced to death until their salvation by liberating forces, although much of their production was destroyed.
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