WOMEN'S EXHIBITION

This exhibition will highlight eleven artists through different mediums such as photography with Anne Locquen, painting with Audrey Valmont, collages with Gaëlle Dechery and Sylviehennequart, sculpture with Louise Jolly and her sculptures, and many others. A large collection of art books and fanzines about women edited by women will complete the exhibition.

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The story of women in art has yet to be told. In the 1950s in the United States, Wilhelmina and Wallace Holladay chose to build a collection of works by exclusively female artists. In 1981, they founded the National Museum of Women in the Arts. In France, the school of fine arts became mixed in 1897 but without women being able to access workshops or competitions, while paying for their courses while they were free for men. Since the 2000s, around 60% of fine arts school graduates have been women while they are still under-represented in art institutions, galleries and art centers.

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Currently, AWARE (Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibition) is developing an international reflection on the history of exhibitions by women artists. This website is “a virtual resource center accessible to all. It is coupled with a documentation space in Paris. ". Their work seeks to reintroduce 20th century female artists. The artists concerned also take a direct part in this work of visibility: the Guerrilla Girls, in motion since 1985, is a collective of visual artists denouncing with humor and irony the inequalities within the art world. Their best-known action is undoubtedly La Grande Odalisque, by Ingres, whose head has been replaced by that of a gorilla asking a question: "Do women have to be naked to enter the Metropolitan Museum?" Less than 5% of artists in the modern art section are women, but 85% of nudes are female. This group of activists takes over the public space (generally attributed to men) by putting up their posters on buses and on the walls of New York.

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How many female artists can you name? Why are we always obliged to specify “female artist” when we never say “male artist”? At the start of the 21st century, what place do women occupy in the art world? Quite small, if we are to believe their under-representation in museums. It is for this reason that the Yellow Cube Gallery engages in a reflection on the theme of women. In our opinion, offering an exhibition of women artists is the best way to promote the diversity and complexity of their work. Indeed, when we ask ourselves the question: where are the women in art? The obvious answer is: everywhere! The woman has been widely portrayed as a muse but rarely celebrated as a designer. Rather than highlighting speeches about women, offer speeches made by women. It may seem reductive to create a feminine inter-self, this bias is quite easily explained: even in the case of mixed exposures, equality is only very rarely achieved. To strive for this equality, one must undoubtedly go through a moment when one decides to show exclusively female exhibitions.