The hundred headless - Woman Angela Grauerholz
2025 | ANGELA GRAUERHOLZ
THE HUNDRED HEADLESS WOMAN
MONTREAL
Nov 8 - Dec 20, 2025
Opening reception and book launch: Saturday November 8, 2025, from 3pm-5pm
Angela Grauerholz, The hundred headless woman book cover. 2025
Blouin Division is pleased to present an exhibition of photographs by Angela Grauerholz for the occasion of the launch of her book The Hundred Headless Woman published by Steidl (Göttingen, Germany).
The book brings together more than 150 portraits of 100 women, some known to the artist, others not, taken by Grauerholz over a period of more than 30 years and presented for the first time in this book. By combining photographs taken with different cameras and technologies with citations of texts by mostly female authors, Grauerholz creates a conceptually compelling hybrid publication, forming a complex portrait of women.
The title The Hundred Headless Woman is borrowed from Max Ernst’s 1929 surrealist collage-novel of the same name, in which he combined cut-out and recomposed 19th century illustrations with unusual captions. Grauerholz embraces the double meaning of Ernst’s title: when pronounced in French, it means both “the woman with a hundred heads” and “the headless woman,” creating an idea of femininity that is both powerfully individual and intensely anonymous. The deliberately everyday nature of Grauerholz’s photographs blurs the “class” distinctions between images in an art context, a printed publication, or on the Internet, and questions the changing ways in which we encounter and judge photography and images of women.