Travel Tip: Art and Archaeology in United States
Francesca Woodman

Francesca Woodman is the first comprehensive survey of the artist’s brief career to be seen in North America---more than thirty years after her death by suicide in 1981 at the age of 22. Woodman’s oeuvre  explores the human body in space and the genre of self-portraiture in particular. Her interest in female subjectivity, seriality, Conceptualist practice, and photography’s relationship to both literature and performance are also hallmarks of the heady moment in American photography during which she came of age.

Spanning the breadth of Woodman’s oeuvre, this presentation includes more than 120 vintage photographs, ranging from her earliest student experiments to her late, large-scale blueprint studies of caryatid-like figures for the ambitious Temple project (1980). The exhibition includes two of her artist books, which were an important form of expression, particularly at the end of her career. Woodman also experimented with moving images; six of her recently discovered and rarely seen short videos are presented in the exhibition.