Mira Schor. Moon Room
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Vue de l'exposition « Moon Room » de Mira Schor, dans le cadre de la saison "Mythologies américaines", Bourse de Commerce - Pinault Collection (Paris), 2023
Curated by
Alexandra Bordes
From September 2023 to January 2024, the Pinault Collection presented Mira Schor's Moon Room exhibition at the Bourse de Commerce, as part of the "American Mythologies" season: a series of solo exhibitions featuring Mike Kelley, Lee Lozano and Ser Serpas - all of them marked by countercultures and a refusal to play by the rules.
This first-ever exhibition in France features works on rice paper made by Schor in the second half of the 1970s along with a recent painting made in 2022. With their fragile, solitary presence, the masks and dresses are covered with highly personal, handwritten texts about her dreams and her interpretations of them, along with reflections on the Holocaust, to which she lost some of her family, and political writings.
“In these works on paper, all that remains of the body are traces of its active, thoughtful character: writing,” which appears in transparency, as an overlay, or as an erasure, “which thus complicates women’s legibility”, wrote Mira Schor. With her incessant interrogation of painting, Schor presents a representation of her own body in the heart of this exhibition Time/spirit (New Red Moon Room), an oil on canvas from 2022. This recent work bookends with the one she made in 1972 at Womanhouse. Lit by a bright, red moon, the artist’s completely painted figure, standing, as if in motion, is now depicted lying in bed, drawn with a furtive stroke of just a few lines.
