The Formless is What Keeps Bleeding Book Release + Screening

Friday, March 8th, 2024 at 7pm PST

Published by HEXENTEXTE, The Formless is What Keeps Bleeding extends Cindy Rehm’s research into lost women—those who have been silenced throughout time through suppression or appropriation. Rehm’s project is comprised of nearly two-hundred collage drawings in response to Marcel Duchamp’s installation Étant donnés. The lifeless female body central to this work contains three women central to Duchamp’s life, who remain culturally obscure: book binder, Mary Reynolds, Brazilian sculptor Maria Martins, and his second wife Alexina "Teeny" Duchamp. In this series, Rehm explores the lingering presence of these three women and considers the possibility for a line of communication between women across generations.

The evening will feature a screening curated by Rehm in conversation with themes in the book, including fragmentation of the body, haunted landscapes, and somatic imprints of misogyny and violence. Works by: Tricia Avant, Ursula Brookbank, Camille Cléant, Georgie Flood, Guta Galli, Angie Jennings, Ibuki Kuramochi, Elizabeth Leister, Aleksandra Murawska, Shana Robbins, Anne Lesley Selcer, Nataša Prosenc Stearns, and Eija Temisevä.

Preorder book here.