The Lab: Josephine Baker - Mirror and Shadow, Berlin

Josephine Baker - Mirror And Shadow - explores a symbolic connection between Josephine
Baker (1906-1975) and Étoile Chaville (1982-). Both artists are afro descendant, dancer-singers
and have the French citizenship. However, seventy-six years separate them and their lives unfold
in very different socio-economic contexts. What connect them?

Which struggles had to be overcome in Josephine Baker’s time and are still relevant today for
women who don’t fit in a box? Built as a dialogue between past and present, Josephine Baker -
Mirror And Shadow - questions stereotyped images, around races, gender or sexuality and their
influence on our vision of the world and the Other.

THE LAB is the artist and audience development series at ETB | IPAC. Founded by Daniel Brunet in 2003, it offers Berlin-based artists an opportunity to share their work-in-progress with an audience and receive feedback in the form of a post-performance discussion.