Inspired by the novel of the same name by the German writer Frank Wedekind, Mine-Haha revolves around the development of a young woman’s body, emphasising the relationship between the gaze, the body, and education.

The novel is presented by its author as a manuscript, entitled Mine-Haha, which was handed to him by his neighbour, the 84-year-old retired teacher Helene Engel, who had committed suicide by throwing herself out of a window some three weeks earlier. A diary of fictional memories that traces the woman’s life from her earliest childhood through to adolescence.
In an exhibition setting, the body of the performer becomes the terrain for investigating the power relations between the viewer and the viewed, by focusing on the role of the spectator.
“Taking Wedekind’s novel as its starting point,” say Marco Corsucci and Matilde Bernardi, “the project aims to problematise the act of looking, highlighting the relationship this has with power and with the masculine. The work explores how the education of a female body can be determined by the male gaze.”