{"id":24045,"date":"2022-10-11T20:05:26","date_gmt":"2022-10-11T18:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/?p=24045"},"modified":"2022-10-12T08:27:39","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T06:27:39","slug":"renee-jacobs-partisan-of-the-lesbian-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/renee-jacobs-partisan-of-the-lesbian-movement\/","title":{"rendered":"Ren\u00e9e Jacobs – Partisan of the Lesbian Movement"},"content":{"rendered":"

Press release courtesy of Ren\u00e9e Jacobs<\/em>
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Ren\u00e9e Jacobs – Partisan of the Lesbian Movement<\/em>
\nOctober 21, 2022 until April 1, 2023
\nMuseu de l\u2019Er\u00f2tica, La Rambla 96 bis, Barcelona, Spain<\/p>\n

VIP & Press Event October 20th at 7pm.<\/p>\n

As a response to recent censorship of her work, the Museu de l\u2019Er\u00f2tica and Ren\u00e9e Jacobs are delighted to announce a six-month exhibit of her photos at the Museu entitled \u201cRen\u00e9e Jacobs-Partisan of the Lesbian Movement.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI would recommend you to re-think if you\u2019re behaving as a photographer or as a partisan of the lesbian movement.\u201d<\/p>\n

These are the words spoken by FotoNostrum Gallery in Barcelona after renowned lesbian photographer Ren\u00e9e Jacobs protested the censorship and removal of all but one of her same-sex images from her \u201cseeingWOMEN\u201d exhibit alongside Helmut Newton in May 2022.<\/p>\n

After images had been selected and sent to the press, the gallery informed Ren\u00e9e that \u201cin your case some images that were not subtle have been withdrawn.\u201d The gallerist deemed some of the images \u201ctoo explicit[ly] lesbian\u201d and stated: \u201cwe have decided not to exhibit some photos [that] might have been interpreted as explicit sex.\u201d Below are some of the images that the gallerist knew had been sent to the press yet were removed without the photographer\u2019s knowledge or consent:<\/p>\n

\"Copyright<\/p>\n

When Ren\u00e9e protested the censorship, the gallerist told her that, \u201cI would recommend you to re-think if you\u2019re behaving as a photographer or as a partisan of the lesbian movement.\u201d The censored images are from the book \u201cRen\u00e9e Jacobs\u2019 PARIS<\/em>\u201d and have already been published in countless mainstream magazines over the years.<\/p>\n

The Museu de l\u2019Er\u00f2tica proudly presents not only these images that were deemed \u201ctoo erotic\u201d to hang alongside Newton, but far more erotic work that Ren\u00e9e has never previously exhibited or published anywhere. Legendary feminist photographer Donna Ferrato said of the censored work: \u201cYour photographs are actually far sexier because they are real loving women photographed by a real loving woman. Your images are more dangerous and controversial because they reveal so much more about unscripted desire\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n

This exhibit highlights authenticity and representation and shines a spotlight on the double standard in the art world between how men are allowed to depict women, how straight people are entitled to depict lesbians and the disconnect where women and lesbians are not allowed to represent themselves\u2014where even the tamest of authentic same-sex desire is deemed as \u201ctoo erotic.\u201d Joan Mart\u00ed i Ventura and Sim\u00f3n Perera, directors of the curatorial project ‘Una Mirada LGTBI+’ in Barcelona, put it this way: “To live in a free, safe world for everyone, we need to ensure that all voices are heard on their own terms. When visions from outside of our own reality and identity are the only thing that define us, the pillars and nuances of who we are fade out.”<\/p>\n

About the Exhibition<\/h2>\n

Ren\u00e9e Jacobs \u2013 Partisan of the Lesbian Movement<\/em> will be on view at the Museu de l\u2019Er\u00f2tica, La Rambla 96 bis, Barcelona, Spain 08002 from October 21, 2022 until April 1, 2023. There will be an exclusive VIP & Press event the evening of October 20, 2022 at 7 pm. If you would like to attend the VIP & Press Reception please rsvp to wendy@reneejacobs.com<\/p>\n

If you are a journalist who would like to review the entire gallery of images for the exhibit, please message renee@reneejacobs.com<\/p>\n

About The Museu de l\u2019Er\u00f2tica<\/h2>\n

The Museu de l\u2019Er\u00f2tica, opened in 1997, is one of the top attractions in Barcelona. Located on La Rambla, the busiest and most historic promenade in the city and drawing 100,000 visitors per year, the Museu presents over 800 pieces of erotic art from ancient Egypt and Rome, through to Asia, the private erotic videos of King Alfonso XIII, onward to Mir\u00f3, Dali, Picasso, John Lennon & Yoko Ono, and of course explaining Barcelona\u2019s erotic history. This is the Museum\u2019s first exhibit specifically dedicated to LGBTQI+ art. For more information about the Museu, contact: office@erotica-museum.com<\/p>\n

About Ren\u00e9e Jacobs<\/h2>\n

Ren\u00e9e Jacobs<\/a> is one of the most celebrated photographers of the female nude of our time. Two-time recipient of the prestigious International Photography Award for Fine Art Nude in 2008 and again for Book\/Fine Art in 2022 for her latest book POLAROIDS<\/em>, she has been exhibited and published around the world. In addition to POLAROIDS<\/em>, her solo monographs include “Werkdruck<\/em>“, “Ren\u00e9e Jacobs’ PARIS<\/em>” and “R\u00eaves de Femmes<\/em>“. Her work frequently appears in Taschen anthologies and has been featured in such magazines as Elle Italia, Vanity Fair France, Playboy Germany, the British Journal of Photography, AnOther Magazine and i-D in Japan, Italy, France & the UK. Jacobs, an American former civil rights & Constitutional litigator, now lives with her wife in the glorious mountains west of Montpellier. For more information about Ren\u00e9e, visit: www.reneejacobs.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ren\u00e9e Jacobs photos were censored earlier this year by FotoNostrum Gallery in Barcelona. Now, ‘Ren\u00e9e Jacobs – Partisan of the Lesbian Movement’ will be on display at the Museu de l\u2019Er\u00f2tica, Barcelona, Spain, October 21, 2022 until April 1, 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24047,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,1470],"tags":[1396],"class_list":["post-24045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lesbian-art","category-spain","tag-renee-jacobs"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}