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Item: Love Is Forever, Isn’t It?

Joanna Zielińska

2024

Book
Materials: ink on paper

Collection: M HKA, Antwerp.

With the publication Love Is Forever, Isn’t It? M HKA sheds new light on the practice of Dorothy Iannone by dealing specifically with her idiosyncratic take on performativity and transdisciplinarity—notably through her use of audio and video pieces, and creative writing—and her unique thinking and imagery regarding feminism and feminine sexuality and desire.

New essays by American curator Alison Gingeras, French curator and academic Ana Mendoza Aldana, and M KHA curator Joanna Zielinska, together with a selection of rarely reproduced bodies of work—especially the “People” series (1966–1968)—offer new approaches to celebrate her work and life.

For more than six decades, Dorothy Iannone (1933, Boston–2022, Berlin) attempted to represent ecstatic love, the union of gender, feeling, and pleasure. Today her oeuvre is widely recognized as one of the most provocative and fruitful bodies of work in recent decades in terms of the liberalization of female sexuality, and political and feminist issues.

Available now at the M HKA museum shop.

The book accompanies Dorothy Iannone’s retrospective exhibition held at M KHA (Antwerp) (06.10.2023–21.01.2024), co-published and distributed by JRP|Editions and M HKA. Coordination: Joanna Zielińska. Authors: Alison Gingeras, Ana Ana Mendoza Aldana, Joanna Zielińska. With special thanks to Nicoletta Fiorucci Collectie.

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The M HKA is a museum for contemporary art, film and visual culture in its widest sense. It is an open place of encounter for art, artists and the public. The M HKA aspires to play a leading role in Flanders and to extend its international profile by building upon Antwerp's avant-garde tradition. The M HKA bridges the relationship between artistic questions and wider societal issues, between the international and the regional, artists and public, tradition and innovation, reflection and presentation. Central here is the museum's collection with its ongoing acquisitions, as well as related areas of management and research.

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