Josephine Baker – Icon in Motion

“Josephine Baker (1906–75) is an icon and a media phenomenon: in films, audio recordings, and photographical material, her presence as a dancer, singer and actor continues to move audiences and artists to this day. Baker’s expressive power as an artist and her life achievements are at once a part of our collective memory and have also become clichéd. The exhibition explores the facets and strategies of Baker’s framing of her persona in an audio-visual essay, and displays the uniqueness of her dancing style and her radiance on the screen …”