The artist Valie Export sits across from me in an apartment above Thaddaeus Ropac’s London gallery, which is currently hosting an exhibition of her work. Export, whose given name is Waltraud Lehner ...
Forty years ago, when Valie Export presented her “birth bed” installation in the Austrian pavilion at the Venice Biennale, the reaction was “so-so”, she says. The sculpture—consisting of a pair of ...