Artists: Maria Lassnig - Carol Rama - Cathy Josefowitz

This summer at the St. Moritz gallery, ‘Intimate Anatomies’ brings together the work of Cathy Josefowitz, Maria Lassnig and Carol Rama, three trailblazing 20th-century artists whose practices challenged traditional notions of portraiture by depicting the female body as a site of lived, individual experience.

For the first time, the exhibition unites paintings and works on paper by Lassnig and Josefowitz with Rama’s paintings and multimedia works, in which she incorporated everyday materials such as syringes, spray paint and glue. Distinct in their approaches yet connected by a shared resistance to convention, the artists explore the body through movement, amorphous form, sexuality and colour. Through these boundary-pushing depictions of the human form and psyche, the exhibition highlights each artist’s relationship to her own body while also considering the body’s connection to society, architectural space and nature.