As a part of the residency program for Research on Women and Non-Binary Photographers and Video Artists, researcher-in-residence Amelia Groom presents work-in-progress on Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore in conversation with writer and filmmaker Juliet Jacques.

Amelia Groom and Juliet Jacques discuss the artists Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore, queer icons who lived near the Villa Vassilieff in Montparnasse during the 1920s and 1930s. Jacques revisits her 2016 text Sertraline Surrealism: After Claude Cahun while Groom shares work-in-progress from a forthcoming essay for the AWARE website. This event also marks the occasion of Susan de Muth’s recently republished English translation of the “anti-memoir” Cancelled Confessions [Aveux non Avenus] (1930) – for which Groom wrote a new introduction. Starting from Cahun’s refusal (or inability) to offer a straightforward memoir, Jacques and Groom consider the ongoing resonance of the artist’s desire to “cancel” the confessional mode – and to mess with expectations for the reproduction of legible, authentic, and individuated selfhood.

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Monday, March 10, 2025

Villa Vassilieff
21, avenue du Maine
75015 Paris