What will the status of women be tomorrow, springing from the archaeology of the present? What kind of lecture or understanding artists currently offer of female iconographies? What problems are imposed on artist’s propositions? How do they reinterpret certain recurring figures bouncing from the collective unconscious?
Aleksandra ADAMCZYK
Andrea BASS
Carmen BOUYER
Clara DANIELE
Marie Gossart et Florence Pierre
Laura McCALLUM
Nesrine MOUELHI
Deborah SFEZ
In a society that likes to believe that equality is already at our doorway, how can we continue to focus on addressing persistent gender inequalities, pressures and violence used on and about WOmen.
Even today, moral and cultural norms weigh on the tenacity of these inequalities. To impose oneself by means of language, ideas and acts remains today the most effective of all battles, and will be so again tomorrow, because the battles won yesterday may be again those of the future.
It is also necessary to go beyond the quarrels of chapels to pose these questions in broader perspectives, by comparing the notions of patriarchy, capitalism and discrimination to better understanding of the structural, cultural and macro-economic causes of gender inequality and to propose another way of apprehending the world. (Francine Descarries - Professor in the Department of Sociology, in the University of Québec , Montréal)
The woman is the others.
In this perspective, the fight for the rights of women is to be compared to any idea of domination over the other, as also on and about the animal’s kingdom and nature. By the 1970s, the eco-feminist movements had understood this by establishing an inseparable link between women's domination and oppression behaviours and the manners of non-respect of nature - between ecocide capitalism and patriarchy. (Jeanne Burgart Goutal, professor of philosophy and specialist in eco feminism.)
There is a possibility of going beyond the stakes of power, a possibility of creating just and equal relationships, on the condition of respecting all others within their pluralism.
Through this manifestation the artists convoke in turn, the body and the spirit (Marie Gossart and Florence Pierre, Déborah Sfez), the veil of modesty (Laura McCallum), the image of the fantasized woman (the Madonna - Clara Daniele, Sovereigns of Aleksandra Adamczyk), cultural identity (Nesrine Mouelhi), femanine relationship to nature (Carmen Bouyer), women place in the media (Andrea Bass) to invoke the woman of the Future.
The exhibition is conceived as a manifesto to be written, through these 8 artistic proposals that will be presented from March 2nd to 30th, but also with the public who is invited to participate each, throughout the entire exhibition, via a digital system that will be available on line, as collectively throughout gatherings and seminars organized during the month of March. The result of these reflections will be produced at the end of the exhibition in a form of an open Manifesto.