Heide Hatry: Heads and Tales

by Heide Hatry (Artist), Catharine Mackinnon (Foreword)

Heads and Tales presents photographic documentation of 30 sculptures by Heide Hatry, in which fake skin appears to have been grafted on top of real faces. Each sculpture represents an imaginary woman for whom an invited female writer has created a biography. Writers include Jessica Hagedorn, Jennifer Belle, Lydia Millet and Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, among others.

240 pages, Hardcover

First published February 1, 2009

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Heide Hatry. Heads and Tales
Artists: Heide Hatry
Authors: Catharine A. MacKinnon, Rosanna Yamagiwa Alfaro, Roberta Allen, Jennifer Belle, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Svetlana Boym, Rebecca Brown, Mary Caponegro, Thalia Field, Lo Galluccio, Diana George, Thyrza Nichols Goodeve, Jessica Hagedorn, Elizabeth Hand, Heather Hartley, Joanna Howard, Katia Kapovich, Lydia Millet, Micaela Morrissette, Carol Novack, Julie Oakes, Barbara Purcell, Selah Saterstrom, Johannah Schmid, Iris Smyles, Luisa Valenzuela, Anna Wexler, Can Xue

“Finding a way to be a woman is finding a way to live with fatal knowledge,” says Catharine A. MacKinnon in her introduction to Heads and Tales.
New York-based German artist Heide Hatry has a penchant for difficult subjects that press directly against mortality, fear and alienation.
Her sculptures – used here as springboards for incredibly diverse evocations of women’s lives by 27 cutting-edge female writers – speak the fatal knowledge that others are at pains to suppress.


They say the human face is the door to the soul.
Heads and Tales gives a moving and original view on this subject.
Who are we really?
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