{"product_id":"never-standing-on-two-feet-clare-rae","title":"Never standing on two feet, Clare Rae","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished to coincide with the major exhibition \u003ci\u003eEntre Nous: Claude Cahun and Clare Rae\u003c\/i\u003e at Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Clare Rae's \u003ci\u003eNever standing on two feet\u003c\/i\u003e serves as both an ode to the legendary avant-garde queer artist and writer Claude Cahun and a telling expansion of the Melbourne artist's own performative photographic practice. The body of work – which was made during a 2017 residency with Arch\u003ci\u003eisle\u003c\/i\u003e: the Jersey Contemporary Photography Programme to research the Cahun archive held by Jersey Heritage – repositions Rae's particular mode of self-portraiture to fall in the windswept Jersey landscape. In the process, it places her practice in direct conversation with that of Cahun, an artist who was associated with the Parisian surrealist movement in the 1920s, before relocating to Jersey with her female partner Marcel Moore in the 1930s, where she would create the vast archive gender-ambiguous portraits for which she later garnered such acclaim. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRae's work not only considers Cahun's relationship to the history, cultural and geographical landscape of Jersey, but enacts a wider investigation and subversion of the male gaze and its relationship to both the female body and our imagining of the landscape. The book – Rae's first – features a foreword by celebrated UK curator Susan Bright and a major essay by Société Jersiaise photographic archivist Gareth Syvret.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublished by Perimeter Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eHardcover \u003cbr\u003e96 pages\u003cbr\u003e260 x 195 mm\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Perimeter Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31830654648410,"sku":"NSOTFCR01","price":30.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2538\/3478\/products\/Screenshot_2020-02-01_at_13.51.20.png?v=1634055508","url":"https:\/\/www.thelibraryproject.ie\/da\/products\/never-standing-on-two-feet-clare-rae","provider":"The Library Project","version":"1.0","type":"link"}