Laurence Rasti

Since 2018, together with her friends Shaya Goldoust, an Iranian trans woman she met in Turkey, and Lena Després, a cisgender woman diagnosed with breast cancer and the artist’s neighbor in Switzerland, Laurence Rasti embarked on a long-term co-authored project.

The project aims to question notions of femininity, identity and self-definition in a multi-faceted and profound way. Combining exchanges, images and conversation transcripts, the two protagonists engage in intimate narratives, describing sometimes liberating, sometimes painful body transformations, in order to share their relationship to femininity. These open-ended notions grow and evolve over time. The work also attempts to question the relationship of collaborative practice, co-authorship and the place of “speech”, where the history and identities of individuals constitute the essence of the artistic work.