"Nicole Gravier is a French artist working in Italy. During the 1970s, she developed Fotoromanzi, a series of artworks inspired by a genre of books of the same name. These books are visual, depicting love stories in which the protagonists are represented as silly women desperately waiting for a man to come home at night. Gravier plays with and makes fun of the genre, staging photos of herself on beds and sofas, captioned with phrases like, ‘I can’t live without you!’ and ‘Please, come back home! I feel lost without you.’ In these images, she is often surrounded by romance novels but also by books written by philosophers like Carla Lonzi and Hegel."
– Chiara Agradi

Chiara Agradi joins Khanya Mashabela and Josh Ginsburg in conversation in anticipation of her curatorial residency.