ART
all artwork by MIRIAM CAHN
interview by OLIVIER ZAHM
photography by LUKAS WASSMANN
from the isolated bunker studio she created for herself in a swiss valley near italy, the cult second-wave feminist artist is still fighting for the truth. her visceral paintings and installations are a corporeal performative act, blurring genders and sexual categories, screaming for justice, and attacking masculine toxicity.
OLIVIER ZAHM — You’ve lived through several different periods of contemporary art since the 1970s. And at this stage of your life, you’re based in a mountain valley in the Southern Alps, and I have the impression — tell me if I’m mistaken — that you live in a kind of autarky.
MIRIAM CAHN — It’s Val Bregaglia, on the Swiss side, on the border with Italy.
OLIVIER ZAHM — Tell me about this place, and your decision to live and work in relative isolation.
MIRIAM CAHN —…