Donna Gottschalk, "Oak, Robin, Binky, Chris and I, Baby Dykes, E. 9th Street, New York", 1969, Courtesy of the artist and Marcelle Alix © Donna Gottschalk
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We Others. Donna Gottschalk and Hélène Giannecchini with Carla Williams
20/06/2025 - 16/11/2025
Le Bal
6, impasse de la Défense
75018 Paris
www.le-bal.fr
LE BAL presents, for the first time in France, the work of Donna Gottschalk, Carla Williams et Hélène Giannecchini, three women, three generations. Photography, art history, literature — their practices differ, yet they share a common commitment — to make visible lives that have been excluded from dominant narratives. This exhibition is the result of their encounter.
Donna Gottschalk, born in 1949 in a working-class neighborhood in New York, is a photographer. Since the late 1960s, she has endeavored to represent the people with whom she has lived, shared political activism, and worked. The development of Donna’s gaze is inseparable from the emerging movements for LGBT+ rights, in which she was involved at a time when homosexual relationships were still illegal in the United States.
Hélène Giannecchini, born in 1987 in Paris, is a writer and art theorist. Attentive to overlooked words and images, she devotes a major part of her research to queer memoirs and minority archives.
Carla Williams, born in 1965 in Los Angeles, is an American photographer and art historian whose series Tender resonates with Donna’s work. As a young student, she became acutely aware of the near absence, within the history of photography, of images created by Black women. With the boldness to address this absence, she began a body of self-portraits within the intimate space of her bedroom.
20/06/2025 - 16/11/2025
Le Bal
6, impasse de la Défense
75018 Paris
www.le-bal.fr
LE BAL presents, for the first time in France, the work of Donna Gottschalk, Carla Williams et Hélène Giannecchini, three women, three generations. Photography, art history, literature — their practices differ, yet they share a common commitment — to make visible lives that have been excluded from dominant narratives. This exhibition is the result of their encounter.
Donna Gottschalk, born in 1949 in a working-class neighborhood in New York, is a photographer. Since the late 1960s, she has endeavored to represent the people with whom she has lived, shared political activism, and worked. The development of Donna’s gaze is inseparable from the emerging movements for LGBT+ rights, in which she was involved at a time when homosexual relationships were still illegal in the United States.
Hélène Giannecchini, born in 1987 in Paris, is a writer and art theorist. Attentive to overlooked words and images, she devotes a major part of her research to queer memoirs and minority archives.
Carla Williams, born in 1965 in Los Angeles, is an American photographer and art historian whose series Tender resonates with Donna’s work. As a young student, she became acutely aware of the near absence, within the history of photography, of images created by Black women. With the boldness to address this absence, she began a body of self-portraits within the intimate space of her bedroom.