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Internationally acclaimed photographer and performance artist Iris Brosch weaves her feminist concept into deeply intriguing images through histories.
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Dive into the world of Iris Brosch’s archive. Explore the past through photography, film, art and performance. And discover how what once felt old can become new again. A journey through images, ideas, and artistic visions that continue to inspire the present.
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WOMEN AND ARCHIVING

For centuries, women have been creating — in painting, sculpture, photography, poetry, literature and performance.

And yet, so little memory of women’s artistic work has been preserved.

We can be grateful that paintings by Artemisia Gentileschi, sculptures by Camille Claudel, or photographs by Julia Margaret Cameron are still visible today.

But how much do we really know about how these women worked?
About their process, their experiments, their failures, their daily practice, their way of seeing?

And how many other women created extraordinary work that was never archived, never considered important enough to preserve — and simply disappeared?

Archiving is not only about preserving the past.
It is about deciding what will be remembered in the future.

This is why we are putting so much time, energy and love into archiving my photographic and film work of the last 42 years.

The first result is a 10-volume catalogue raisonné of my Polaroid archive.

Thousands of images. Decades of experiments, encounters, women, bodies, ideas and visions — brought together so they will not disappear.

And this is only the beginning.

More will come.

A very special thank you to @pierredalcorso , @maximo.nm , @sarah_moheieldin and @electrarchives for helping to make this enormous work possible.

Women created history.
Now we have to make sure their history is kept.
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