The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis presents And I Saw New Heavens and a New Earth: The Partnership, Art, and Activism of Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore through August 9th!

This exhibition presents an exploration of Claude Cahun (1894-1954, Nantes, France) and Marcel Moore (1892-1972, Nantes, France), two visionary, gender-non-conforming artists and activists of the 20th century who lived their values, even in the face of persecution and repression under Nazi-occupied Europe.

Known for their work early in the Surrealist movement, they approached their work and way of life as a carefully considered form of resistance. Combining photographs, historical documents, drawings, and ephemera—with experimental storytelling by writer and oral historian, Svetlana Kitto—And I Saw New Heavens and a New Earth celebrates the creative output, enduring partnership, and risk-taking political commitments of these two artists.