{"id":3890,"date":"2026-03-24T17:49:40","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T17:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artfile.es\/2026\/ensayo-7-marianne-wexs-lets-take-back-our-space-a-case-study\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T17:33:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T17:33:51","slug":"ensayo-7-marianne-wexs-lets-take-back-our-space-a-case-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artfile.es\/en\/2026\/ensayo-7-marianne-wexs-lets-take-back-our-space-a-case-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Ensayo 7: Marianne Wex\u2019s \u2018LET\u2019S TAKE BACK OUR SPACE\u2019, a Case Study"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The German artist Marianne Wex earned a degree in Fine Arts and subsequently taught typography for several years at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts (HfbK). Her best-known work, the research project and book <em>Let\u2019s Get Back Our Space \u2013 \u2018Female\u2019 and \u2018Male\u2019 Body Language as a Result of Patriarchal Structures<\/em> (Frauenliteraturverlag Hemine Fees, 1979), is in fact her final thesis project. For this reason, I thought it appropriate to choose this project as the topic for a talk in the context of the first edition of Ex Libris \u2013 Independent Book Fair, which took place at the School\u2019s Expanded Library.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Ensayo 7<\/em> is a small fanzine that I produced for the talk. It functions as a six-page publication when folded, and as a poster featuring the cover of Wex\u2019s book when opened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The <\/strong><strong><em>Ensayos<\/em><\/strong><strong> series was launched in late 2021, coinciding with the start of a wide-ranging research project aimed at redefining\u2014from a feminist and, to the extent possible, decolonial perspective\u2014the canon that historiography has established for the artist\u2019s book genre. The aim of this series is to present partial research findings in a variety of printed formats. While disseminating information and content, the publications in the series experiment with alternative formats to the channels through which academic research is usually disseminated.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Hamburg: self-published, December 2024<br>Concept, text, photographs: Mela D\u00e1vila Freire<br>Graphic design: Laura Meseguer, Barcelona<br>B\/W photocopy<br>42 x 27.9 cm (open), 10.5 x 15 cm (closed), poster + 6 pp<br>Printed at Druckwelten, Hamburg<br>1st edition: 100 copies.<br>Text in English<br>Distributed during the Ex Libris fair (HfbK) and by mail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The German artist Marianne Wex earned a degree in Fine Arts and subsequently taught typography for several years at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts (HfbK). Her best-known work, the research project and book Let\u2019s Get Back Our Space \u2013 \u2018Female\u2019 and \u2018Male\u2019 Body Language as a Result of Patriarchal Structures (Frauenliteraturverlag Hemine Fees, 1979), &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artfile.es\/en\/2026\/ensayo-7-marianne-wexs-lets-take-back-our-space-a-case-study\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4037,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[62,48,60],"class_list":["post-3890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-self-publishing","tag-ensayos-series","tag-artists-publications","tag-women-artists"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artfile.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artfile.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artfile.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artfile.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artfile.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3890"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/artfile.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4056,"href":"https:\/\/artfile.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3890\/revisions\/4056"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artfile.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artfile.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artfile.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artfile.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}