From 1972 to 1977 the West German artist Marianne Wex (1937-2020) undertook an extensive photographic research project that eventually was published as a book: Let's Take Back Our Space: “Female” and “Male” Body Language as a Result of Patriarchal Structures (1979). Both visual analysis and homeopathic demonstration of the patriarchal state's performative effect on somatic physical expression, the book is as much a work of renegade feminist sociology as it is a work of photo-conceptualism. This essay performs an archaeology of Let's Take Back Our Space, reading it in the context of contemporaneous aestheticopolitical discourses, including feminist autodidacticism.

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在个人与政治之间：关于玛丽安·韦克斯的让我们收回我们的空间

从 1972 年到 1977 年，西德艺术家玛丽安·韦克斯 (Marianne Wex)（1937-2020 年）进行了一项广泛的摄影研究项目，最终出版为一本书：让我们收回我们的空间：作为父权制结构的结果的“女性”和“男性”肢体语言（1979）。这本书既是对父权制国家对躯体表现的表演效果的视觉分析，也是顺势疗法的展示，既是一部叛逆的女权主义社会学作品，也是一部摄影观念主义作品。这篇文章对《让我们收回我们的空间》进行了考古，在同时代的审美政治话语（包括女权自学主义）的背景下阅读它。