To accompany their exhibition, The Making of Husbands: Christina Ramberg in Dialogue, Frac Lorraine will screen our award-winning, critically-acclaimed film, Hairy Who & The Chicago Imagists. While Hairy Who has screened in London, Vienna, and other cities around the globe, this screening marks its premiere in France. Frac Lorraine, in collaboration with Triangle - Astérides, Marseille and the Fondation Antoine de Galbert, undertook the translation, which will be made available to other institutions interested in screening the film with French subtitles. For more information about the Christina Ramberg exhibition and the screening, please visit the Frac Lorraine website.

In the mid 1960s, the city of Chicago was an incubator for an iconoclastic group of young artists. Collectively known as the Imagists, they showed in successive waves of exhibitions with monikers that might have been psychedelic rock bands of the era—Hairy Who, Nonplussed Some, False Image, Marriage Chicago Style. Kissing cousins to the contemporaneous international phenomenon of Pop Art, Chicago Imagism took its own weird, wondrous, in-your-face tack. Variously pugnacious, puerile, scatological, graphic, comical, and absurd, it celebrated a very different version of ‘popular’ from the detached cool of New York, London and Los Angeles. Hairy Who & The Chicago Imagists is the first film to tell their wild, woolly, utterly irreverent story.