The exhibition, on display at UCLA's Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, vividly tells the writer's life story through text excerpts, artwork and film.
Michael CallahanBrigitte Lacombe, Joan Didion, New York, 1996, 1996. Black-and-white photograph. 16 × 20 in. . Courtesy of the artist and Lacombe, Inc.
She was the very definition of “enigmatic,” the woman hiding behind insouciance and the occasional pair of Jackie O sunglasses, sage and inscrutable. But for all of her air of mystery,, who died in December 2021 at the age of 87, was first and foremost one of the great literary lions of our times.
A quote recalling her lack of sophistication arriving in Manhattan is presented next to German painter Silke Otto-Knapp’s, depicting the expectant form of a young woman; juxtaposed photographs of drag queens and the Daughters of the American Revolution in 1961 supplement a telling quote from 1989’s “Some Women” about the hypocrisy of glossy magazine portraits where subjects were told to “just be themselves”: “What occurred … was a transaction of an entirely opposite kind: success was understood...
Presented in chronological order, the show proves a very satisfying carousel spin through an exceptional life. Als, who has previously curated shows on James Baldwin and Toni Morrison, says he hopes it will both demythologize Didion, whose dour countenance and exacting nature contributed to the persistent image of her as the Morticia Addams of letters, while also rounding out her legacy as a literary icon.
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