Roswitha Hecke, Irene

A homage to the complexity of agency, freedom and desire, created together by two women.

For a period of 3 weeks in Zurich and Rome, 1978, the German artist Roswitha Hecke photographed sex worker Irene," a secret star of Zurich's Bohème." Irene presents the images Hecke made during that time, alongside quotations from Irene herself and from Charles Baudelaire.

160 pages, published 2011 by Edition Patrick Frey,  24.5 × 18 cm, hardcover