An exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago, 'Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore: The Seeing Stone,' presents the collaborative and subversive work of the French artists and life partners. The show features over 200 objects, including photographs, photomontages, and manuscripts, focusing on their radical self-portraiture and resistance to gender and social norms.
The exhibition is significant for bringing long-overdue institutional recognition to Cahun and Moore's pioneering artistic partnership. Their work, created in the early 20th century, prefigured contemporary discussions on gender fluidity, queer identity, and the use of art as political resistance, most notably during their activism against the Nazi occupation of Jersey.