Lorenza Böttner: Requiem for the Norm

Published by

Spector Books

Edited by

Paul B. Preciado, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart

Designed by

Till Gathmann

ISBN

973-3-95905-560-4

Publication Year

2024

To Order

Purchase in person at the Art Museum—Justina M. Barnicke Gallery.

About

Lorenza Böttner: Requiem for the Norm is the first comprehensive publication on the work of artist Lorenza Böttner (1959–1994). It is based on the exhibition of the same name, which was co-produced by the Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart and La Virreina Centre de la Imatge in Barcelona (2018–2019). Böttner painted with her feet and mouth and used photography, drawing, dance, installation, and performance as artistic tools. Her work is a celebration of life and sets itself against the processes that seek to desubjectify, desexualize, lock up, and “disappear” bodies that are transgender or function differently. The curator of the exhibition and editor of the catalogue, Paul B. Preciado, ponders Böttner’s life and work at length in two essays, in which he also reflects on his personal encounters with her. In addition to this, the book brings together different voices discussing the aesthetic and political power of her art.