Both Wanda and Loden’s own life story raise troubling questions about women’s possibilities for self-determination.
Léger’s follow-up, Suite for Barbara Loden (2012), focuses on the director and actress Barbara Loden and her film Wanda, about a woman who leaves her family and drifts around ’60s Appalachia, eventually getting caught up in a failed bank heist. After a brief moment of glory at the French court, Castiglione sank into depression and isolation, nevertheless asserting her presence in hundreds of carefully posed photographs. In Exposition, Léger examines the life of Virginia Oldoïni, the Countess of Castiglione, possibly the most photographed person of the late nineteenth century. I recently translated Nathalie Léger’s Exposition (2008)-the first in a triptych of books the French author and curator wrote weaving together her mother’s story, and particularly the failure of her parents’ marriage, with the stories of three female artists, all public figures. Some Thoughts on Diaspora and Hybridity: An Unpublished Slide Lecture (1994) Josephine Decker’s Shirleyby Lincoln Michel Munuera’s The Transscalar Architecture of COVID-19by Alex Tell Lafawndah’s The Fifth Seasonby Lily SperryĪndrés Jaque and Ivan L. (Translated by Bettina Funcke)by Corina Copp Vivian Vázquez Irizarry and Gretchen Hildebran’s Decade of Fire
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