Julie Cafmeyer – About the Breast

On March 8, Julie Cafmeyer will present a performative text of approximately half an hour, inspired by the paintings in the KMSKA Salon. In this space, where the female body has been observed, depicted, and interpreted for centuries, the breast takes center stage — as a body part, an image, and a bearer of meaning.

Drawing on the way breasts appear in the collection — idealized, sexualized, veiled, or symbolically charged — a powerful text unfolds that reclaims and celebrates the female body. Cafmeyer places her words in dialogue with the surrounding paintings, questioning who looks, who imagines, and who speaks.

Here, the breast is not presented as an object, but as a site of experience and autonomy: a body that carries history while simultaneously freeing itself from centuries of visual tradition.

An intense, poetic, and engaged intervention in the collection, created especially for International Women’s Day.