The portraits in Heads and Tales are photographic documentations of sculptures Hatry created out of animal skin and body parts. She invited a number of writers to select the image of one of her women and create a life for her. As the work addresses issues of violence, death and gender identity, the writing reflects similar concerns as they are specific to women. “Finding a way to be a woman is finding a way to live with fatal knowledge,” says Catharine MacKinnon in her introduction, and Hatry and her collaborators speak that fatal knowledge which others are at pains to suppress.

Exhibitions are held in conjunction with the release of the book Heads and Tales, (CHARTA, Milan/New York, 2009), a collaborative anthology with an Introduction by Catharine A. MacKinnon, Heads by Heide Hatry and Tales by Rosanna Yamagiwa Alfaro, Roberta Allen, Jennifer Belle, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Svetlana Boym, Rebecca Brown, Mary Caponegro, Thalia Field, Lo Galluccio, Diana George, Thyrza Nichols Goodeve, Jessica Hagedorn, Elizabeth Hand, Heather Hartley, Joanna Howard, Katia Kapovich, Lydia Millet, Micaela Morrissette, Carol Novack, Julie Oakes, Barbara Purcell, Selah Saterstrom, Johannah Schmid, Iris Smyles, Luisa Valenzuela, Anna Wexler and Can Xue.

Interview in the fall issue of:
ANTENNAE, The Journal of Nature and Visual Culture (pdf)

Reviews:
Village Voice, Eat Me Daily, Boston Phoenix, Harvard Crimson, Berkeley Beacon, Flavorpill, and TAIDE & DESIGN

Reviews from Imagine It Thick In Your Own Hair in the Boston Globe, Oil Spill News, at mutualart.com and Jimsullivanink.com
Videos of opening ceremony: Performance by singer Nicole Peyrafitte
                                              Performance by musician Lutz Rath