If we look briefly at what makes good art, it is of course to work with what is in front of us. Inventions are good, but if the point of escape into the unknown is the known, even better. Certainly nothing is more readily available than one’s own family. It is a matrix we will never leave, and if we escape it, we inevitably escape in relation to it. Diana worked with the ima

If a monster is a body that is frightening because it is out of control, a monstrous woman is a woman who is free of man's control. "The Monstrous Feminine" is an essay on the savage nature of femininity, travelling between myth and literature, crime news and horror films, showing the primordial fear that patriarchy has always had of women. From "The Exorcist" to the Babylonian goddess Tiamat, from the biblical Lilith to "Young Witches", through legends and for

Every year, 47,000 women around the world die due to botched illegal abortions. Those who survive risk imprisonment, while millions of others are forced to carry pregnancies to term against their will.  Control of female fertility has long been an ambition of most states, societies and religions in the world. Although safe and efficient abortion technologies now exist, at least 138 countries restrict a woman’s right to terminate pregnancy under various conditions—in some co

Unnecessary, free, great, generous. These are the traits of the ailanthus (Ailanthus altissima) that Zhuangzi evoked to illustrate his philosophy of the Tao. Today, these same characteristics are reproached to the specimens of this species that evolves in temperate regions of all continents. Simon Boudvin followed the development of ailanthus populations for ten years in an area of eastern Paris, between the communes of Bagnolet and Montreuil. He shares here an excerpt of his pho

Moira Ricci 20.12.53 – 10.08.04 is a complex contemporary photographic research project created by Moira Ricci between 2004 and 2014, based on a powerful effect of reality created through digital fiction. The project and the series of works created at its conclusion represent a means of reappropriating the figure of the lost mother, as indicated by the dates of her birth and death already referenced in the title. The volume, designed by the artist herself, includes all 50 photographs from the