Electronic Diaries, six video segments, 1984–2019, KW Institute for Contemporary Arts, Berlin. Courtesy of the artist.
For nearly sixty years, Lynn Hershman Leeson has been overturning oppressively imposing personas, institutions, ideologies, technologies, and systems through a diverse range of sculptural objects, collages, performances, videos, films, internet chats, and healing antibodies extracted from her body. More than any artist I can think of, Leeson’s work has embodied what Melanie Klein described as the fusion of fantasy to science in an effort to psychically exorcise cultural and personal aggressors. In the process of her liberation, she became fiercely determined to leave her imprint on the world through art as proof of her healing and liberation. Today she is triumphantly exhibiting and screening her art around the world, with