With the spring issue out and new hope on the horizon to guide us clear of the pandemic, we’ve planned a celebration and you’re all invited. We’ll explore the life and work of French avant garde artists Claude Cahun and her partner Marcel Moore. The pair experimented with the meaning of gender through androgynous self-portraiture, becoming darlings of the modernist and surrealist movements in 1920s and 30s Paris. Born into intellectual families in Nantes in the late-19th century, they eventually became active anti-Nazi resistance workers in Jersey during the 1940s and have influenced the work of contemporary creatives ranging from Gillian Wearing to David Bowie.
Learn all about the couple’s time in Jersey from our guest speaker Jeffrey H Jackson, who recently published a biography about them, Paper Bullets: Two Artists Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis. Then watch a short film about Cahun’s life and delve into her French Jewish background with JR’s executive director Avia Dautch. JR’s editor Rebecca Taylor will reveal what’s in our new spring issue and Monica Bohm-Duchen – curator, writer and director of Insiders/Outsiders – will chair the discussion.
Please register below to receive the streaming link, which will be sent out one day before the event.
Free
JR has an ethical ticketing policy and is offering free tickets to this event, but if you can afford it, please donate to support our work. We are proposing denominations of 18 – the numerical value of the Hebrew word 'chai', meaning 'life'.
