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Stephanie Oursler's 5 Cuts, an artist book originally self-published in 1975 in Rome, comprises a series of black and white images accompanied by a handwritten text. The artist had found the displayed images - stills from unidentified silent films - and combined them with her autobiographical writing, creating both an intimate recollection and a literary construction of her own life. Stephanie Oursler's artistic vocabulary tells of her active participation in women's groups and networks in Rome, in which political issues were addressed via a distinctive articulation between memory, history and fiction. 5 Cuts weaves together the personal and the political to speak about something that lays beyond language and image.
About the author
Stephanie Oursler (*1938, Baltimore, USA, ¿ 2018, Mailand) kam Anfang der 70er Jahre nach Rom aus New York, wo sie als Aktivistin an der Bürgerrechts- und Frauenbewegung teilnahm. 1976 gründete sie unter anderem mit Carla Arcadi und Suzanne Santoro die Cooperativa del Beato Angelico, einen ausschließlich von Frauen betriebenen Ausstellungsraum in Rom. 5 Cuts wird hier in seiner ursprünglichen Form neuveröffentlicht und um einen Text der Kunsthistorikerin Giovanna Zapperi erweitert.
