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“HOW WE ALWAYS SURVIVED” BY PAULINE BOUDRY / RENATE LORENZ

The first solo show in Italy by Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz unfolds across six rooms at at Istituto Svizzero Rome as an exploded score of audiovisual installations and totemic sculptural pieces featuring dancefloor cutouts, wigs, microphones, trinkets and bars.

Review by Vittoria de Franchis

21 Nov, 2025

Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz: (No) Time, 2020. Courtesy of the artists

Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz: how we always survived, Istituto Svizzero, Roma, 2025. Photos by Annik Wetter

Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz: El Cristal Es Mi Piel (Glass Is My Skin), 2025, video still. Courtesy of the artists

Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz: how we always survived, Istituto Svizzero, Roma, 2025. Photos by Annik Wetter

Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz: (No) Time, 2020, video still. Courtesy of the artists

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    DJ Sprinkles on club culture, capitalism and trans visibility, in SLEEK MAG, 2018.

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    Conversation with Edouard Glissant aboard the Queen Mary II., 2009.

Review21 Nov, 2025