April 6, 2025
The Claude Cahun & Marcel Moore weekend / In Conversation with Claire Follain
The Weighbridge, JE2 3NG St. Helier, Jersey, The Square, Weighbridge Place, St Helier, JE2 3NF, Jersey
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Join Claire Follain as she recounts her personal journey to uncover the story of Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore from an untranslated archive of diaries, address books, scraps of paper and photographic negatives. While still a student of Contemporary History and French at Sussex University in the late 1990s, Claire was offered a summer job back home in Jersey, translating a personal archive recently acquired by Jersey Heritage from French to English. The archive contained diaries, address books, scraps of paper and photographic negatives in huge quantities. As she began to compile the narrative, the significance of the story behind the archive became apparent. During her talk, Claire will share how she recognised that this was a once-in-a-lifetime experience, one that made her feel like a treasure hunter unearthing a hidden, invaluable history about surrealist artists Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore. See all of the events celebrating the lives, work and artful resistance of surrealists artists Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore and book your free tickets for this event here.
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