![]() ![]() Through this intense examination of Bacca’s final work and of the often polarised public reaction to the role of women in art, Léger also compellingly addresses her own conflicted relationship with her elderly mother. In telling the young woman’s story, which overwhelms her and inexorably draws her in, Nathalie Léger recounts the different stages of her research and strikes upon something fundamental within Bacca’s performance: the desire to remedy the unfathomable nature of violence and war. On 8 March 2008, the Italian performance artist Pippa Bacca undertook an unusual and symbolic journey: her aim was to promote the cause of peace by hitchhiking from Milan to Jerusalem, wearing a customized white wedding dress, and documenting the experience by video. Can a white dress ever be enough to make amends for the world’s torments? Probably no more than words can ever be enough to do justice to a weeping mother.’ - Nathalie Léger I wasn’t interested in the grace or foolishness of her intentions what interested me was that she hoped this gesture would be enough to mend something that was so out of proportion with it – and that she did not make it. She said she thought she could do that simply by wearing a wedding dress. ‘She wanted to bring peace to countries that had known war. First English edition published on 31 March 2020ġ36 pages, paperback, 180 x 120 mm, isbn 978-1999įrench booksellers’ award Prix Wepler 2018 ![]()
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