A Body of One’s Own, self-portraits of a woman

The title, A Body of One’s Own, is inspired by Virginia Woolf’s essay A Room of One’s Own, which addresses the limited place of women artists in history and draws the following conclusion: in order to be educated, produced and successful, an artist must have some money and a place of her own, because to be an artist is to be all one’s own. Today, the same issues accompany the daily life of women: what about our body, our thoughts, our money, our work, our role and our image? It is self-portrait that allows Nora Rupp to observe her own contradictions and to deconstruct the injunctions that are made against her, such as the daily dressing of the body and the duty of seduction, domestic work, motherhood and care for others. There are the rules that govern our gestures and postures, even our clothing and hairstyle, according to the place or places we occupy: how do we stand, speak, walk, feel, and think (ourselves) in the public space, at home, at work, alone or in the presence of a man or a woman? What are our ways of being in the world, what are their origins and what are the consequences?