Speciwomen, 2024

Eléonore: Safe Travel is a book of postcards published in conjunction to the artist’s first solo exhibition at Justine Kurland Studio in New York. It contains all the works from the exhibition, a traveling memorabilia of the show.

“In 1985 the feminist theorist Donna Haraway defined the posthuman feminist condition with her essay A Cyborg Manifesto, rejecting rigid patriarchal social identities for a capacious, agile, and elusive hybridity that collapses the clear distinctions between human, animal, and machine. Eléonore’s chimeric explorations—her form meeting machine, flower, lion, dog, mountain, phoenix, and tree—speak to the great liberatory potential of multiplicity, in this case emerging from the very literal trauma of her cancer. Mastectomie au soleil (Mastectomy in the Sun, 2023) is a culmination of Eléonore’s shape-shifting: her metal-toned body is still fleshy but is in the process of breaking apart, glitching, and becoming.” – Marina Chao