They slant. They persist. They storm.
Textual| N° d'inventaire | 31710 |
| Format | 21 x 29.7 |
| Détails | 224 p., paperback |
| Publication | Paris, 2025 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782386290794 |
The photographic vocabulary of the “bad girl” rebellion.
Considered "deviant", "vicious", "uneducable" or "lost", thousands of young girls were placed by court order in so-called "preservation" schools, public prison institutions for minors founded at the end of the 19th century. century, the doors of which were only closed in 1951.
Drawing on the archives of these terrible places of confinement, artist Agnès Geoffray has created unruly images endowed with an extraordinary emancipatory force, depicting the strategies of surveillance and body redress as well as the young girls' gestures of revolt, dissent, and solidarity. Punctuated by texts by art historian Vanessa Desclaux, which combine this artistic approach with other accounts of struggle, this work gives voice and body back to the "bad girls," rehabilitating them as political subjects of their history—which is also ours.
The photographic vocabulary of the “bad girl” rebellion.
Considered "deviant", "vicious", "uneducable" or "lost", thousands of young girls were placed by court order in so-called "preservation" schools, public prison institutions for minors founded at the end of the 19th century. century, the doors of which were only closed in 1951.
Drawing on the archives of these terrible places of confinement, artist Agnès Geoffray has created unruly images endowed with an extraordinary emancipatory force, depicting the strategies of surveillance and body redress as well as the young girls' gestures of revolt, dissent, and solidarity. Punctuated by texts by art historian Vanessa Desclaux, which combine this artistic approach with other accounts of struggle, this work gives voice and body back to the "bad girls," rehabilitating them as political subjects of their history—which is also ours.