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Lorenza Böttner and Johannes Koch, Untitled, 1983. Black and white photograph. Private collection.
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Lorenza Böttner: Requiem for the Norm
Apr 15 - Aug 14, 2022
Lorenza Böttner: Requiem for the Norm is the first U.S. presentation of the work of Chilean/German artist Lorenza Böttner (1959-1994). Born in Chile, Böttner lost both arms in an accident at the age of eight. Institutionalized in Germany, where she moved with her mother for treatment, she rejected prosthetics intended to compensate for her supposed disability. In art school, she started presenting as female and assumed the name Lorenza. Although her career spanned just sixteen years, Böttner created hundreds of individual works, painting with her feet and mouth and using dance, photography, street performance, drawing, and installation to celebrate the complexity of embodiment and gender expression. Casting herself as a ballerina, a mother, a young man with glass arms, a Greek statue, Böttner’s work is irreverent and hedonistic, filled with the artist’s joy in her own body.
Lorenza Böttner: Requiem for the Norm has been curated by Paul B. Preciado. The exhibition is co-produced by Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, Germany, and La Virreina Centre de la Imatge Barcelona, Spain. The circulation of this exhibition is organized by the Art Museum at the University of Toronto, Canada, in collaboration with the producers of the exhibition, the Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, Germany, and La Virreina Centre de la Imatge Barcelona, Spain.
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