Laura Larson - City of Incurable Women
Laura Larson - City of Incurable Women
Laura Larson - City of Incurable Women
Laura Larson - City of Incurable Women
Laura Larson - City of Incurable Women
Laura Larson - City of Incurable Women
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Laura Larson - City of Incurable Women

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Published by Saint Lucy Books
Hardcover, 216 pages
9 x 7 in

About the book:

City of Incurable Women pictures the complex lives of the 19th century women, diagnosed as suffering from hysteria, who were hospitalized at the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris. Incorporating a broad range of materials, Larson layers archival imagery with her own photographs and texts, speculating through the documented accounts of the women’s illness. Larson imagines the women as a collective, making a claim for their shared knowledge and the pleasures and risks of escape. Embracing photography’s capacity to feel, City of Incurable Women sees these women as unruly spirits that haunt the present, mining the radical possibilities of empathy and resistance.

Laura Larson has exhibited her work nationally and internationally, including Art in General, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, SFCamerawork, Susanne Vielmetter/L.A. Projects, and Wexner Center for the Arts. Her exhibitions have been reviewed in Artforum, Hyperallergic, The New York Times, The New Yorker, and Time Out New York, and she has published artist projects in Cabinet, Documents, and The Literary Review. City of Incurable Women is her second book with Saint Lucy; her first, Hidden Mother, was shortlisted for the Aperture/Paris Photo First Book Prize.