FAME 2025
Femmes Artistes - Mouvement Engagé
We are Proud to Announce this First Special Exhibition “FAME 2025” with Recent Works of 13 International Artists,
Curated by Flavie Durand-Ruel
Opening Sunday 18 May 2025, 2 - 7pm.
The exhibition runs until July 5, 2025. It is held in Frédérick Mouraux Gallery's two spaces, #27 and #28, of the Rivoli Brussels, center for contemporary art, located at 690, chaussée de Waterloo (Bascule district) in Brussels.
This group show features works by thirteen contemporary international artists, Pauline Bazignan (FR), Sophie Blanc (FR), Raphaële de Broissia (FR), Françoise Catalàa (FR), Barbara Debeuckelaere (BE), Anne Giscard d'Estaing (FR), Barbara Kandiyoti (BE), Sophie de Laporte (FR), Carmen Mariscal (Mexico), Lucy Orta (UK), Françoise Pétrovitch (FR), Fab Rideti (FR) and Shihori Yamamoto (Japan).
Moreover, the gallery is pleased to exhibit a work by Françoise Pétrovitch, guest artist for this event.
FAME 2025
Women are increasingly asserting their presence in the art world. At the head of major Museums and Foundations, they know how to impose skills that are recognized by all. But more importantly, their presence in all artistic disciplines is no longer to be considered an exception. It has been a long road: it took over a century for women's artistic creation to be recognized and welcomed by male artists, galleries, collectors, museums and the public.
Today, women artists are claiming the right to create for themselves, and to bring people together by provoking emotions, reactions, questions and exchanges. They are not afraid of techniques; the ones they choose correspond to their sensibility and are, with perfect mastery, at the service of what they want to express. Like their male counterparts, when they are not expressing their own feelings, experiences and intimate selves, they're tackling major issues facing our society. The freedom to create is a right that can become fragile! It is up to our female artists to maintain and defend their right of expression with conscience and firmness.
Pauline BAZIGNAN – France – The artist plays on the boundary between presence and absence, appearance and disappearance, creating a mysterious alchemy. Through circles and fluid forms, her work explores what lies beyond the visible, inviting a singular perception. Water and fire are key elements in her process, infusing her works with a sense of lightness and metamorphosis. Pauline Bazignan accepts the accidental and the unexpected as creative forces, privileging the unforeseen over the predictable to give birth to works charged with meaning and mystery.
Sophie BLANC – France – A master gilder, restorer and creator, the artist handles gold leaf with palpable emotion. To express her deep admiration for the plant world, Sophie Blanc transforms fragile plants into precious icons of exceptional finesse and lightness. Sublimating the ephemeral invites us to take a fresh look at nature, revealing its discreet beauty and encouraging us to slow down. Her creations awaken our childhood memories, like her own spent in the heart of the Auvergne countryside.
Raphaële de BROISSIA – France – Through an eclectic artistic practice combining installations, sculptures and paintings, the artist pays particular attention to matter, which she transforms and sublimates. Her work is based on the use of poor materials: nails, balloons, newspapers, masking tape, orange peels and books, which Raphaële de Broissia transforms into organic compositions, breathing new life into them. Inspired by the observation of landscapes and environments modified by man, in 2012 she developed a singular technique at the Beaux-Arts de Paris: Paper Tapestry, an innovative material based on the use of latex and masking tape with sinuous movements. In this way, she restores an organic appearance to a material initially transformed by man.
Françoise CATALÀA – France – From her early days at the Beaux-Arts, the artist forged the idea that man is on the “march” from birth to death. The series of numbers 1-2-3-4-5-6-7 is at the heart of Françoise Catalàa's research and evokes time when it is lived passionately with the few people who have counted in our lives. After 31 years, Françoise Catalàa has created an archive of this series in 5,300 languages. Her works tackle committed themes such as women's freedom, biodiversity, borders, war and migration, while paying tribute to those who have marked her life and carrying strong social and humanitarian messages.
Barbara DEBEUCKELAERE – Belgium – With degrees in economics, international law and visual arts, her work lies at the crossroads of documentary and conceptual genres, blending abstraction and reality to illuminate profound ideas. Barbara Debeuckelaere focuses on visualizing the invisible and critiquing insidious normalization in the neoliberal realm, exploring themes such as capitalism, power and fascism. Using documentary strategies and re-enactments, Debeuckelaere interrogates the invisible structures that shape our societies.
Anne GISCARD D’ESTAING – France – Creating is a vital act. After a stroke, art became a form of therapy for Anne Giscard d'Estaing, a necessity to rebuild her life. Inspired by her medical scans and organic forms, her work captures the energy of life through vibrant colors and spontaneous gestures. In love with nature, the artist finds balance, inspiration and renewal. Her intuitive approach gives painting an almost magical dimension, where each canvas is a surprise, a dialogue between body, mind and world, imbued with a profound optimism.
Barbara KANDIYOTI – Belgium – Fascinated by mushrooms, Barbara Kandiyoti photographs them during her walks in Belgium's Forêt de Soignes, before transposing them into her ceramic creations. Their diversity, complexity and fragility feed her work, in which she explores natural imperfections such as cracks and fractures. Incorporating the Japanese technique of kintsugi, which sublimates imperfections through the use of gold leaf, the artist fashions airy works full of life, where ceramics dialogue harmoniously with nature.
Sophie de LAPORTE – France – For Sophie de Laporte, nature is an inexhaustible source of inspiration, captivating and speaking to her. Her walks in the woods and countryside nourish her paintings, creations full of sensitivity and colors that are both clear and intense. Through her canvases, the artist succeeds in conveying energies, harmony and curiosity that plunge us into a profound serenity. As we contemplate them, we sense a part of her happiness, like an invitation to share her wonder.
Carmen MARISCAL – Mexico – Carmen Mariscal’s multidisciplinary work, combining installation, sculpture, video, photography and theatrical scenography, is part of a committed feminist approach. Marked by a serious car accident at the age of 22 that left her bedridden, Carmen Mariscal has made confinement a leitmotif of her creation. By rediscovering her grandmother's wedding dress, she questions family traditions and the ambivalent place of women in society. Fragility, the body, memory and the female condition are at the heart of her work, which is driven by a profound social conscience.
Lucy + Jorge ORTA – United Kingdom – With a degree in fashion design, Lucy Orta met artist Jorge Orta, her future husband, in Paris in 1992. She then devoted herself to research she called “architecture of the body”. Using a variety of techniques, Lucy Orta explores the boundaries between the body and architecture, while examining issues such as communication and identity. In 1993, Lucy + Jorge founded Studio Orta; their collaboration resulted in works often dealing with sustainability and social and ecological issues, such as the food chain, with their 70 x 7 The Meal project. In 2007, they received the Green Leaf Award from the United Nations Environment Program.
Françoise PÉTROVITCH – France – A painter of the intimate, Françoise Pétrovitch explores subjects such as adolescence, disappearance and nature to compose an imaginary world oscillating between dream and nightmare. Known for her ink washes, which involve diluting ink with water to obtain varying degrees of transparency and fluidity, the artist plays with drips and spills to encourage loss of control, echoing romanticism and the unconscious. Her works capture suspended moments, both fleeting and timeless, opening up a space of free interpretation where chance and raw emotion meet.
Fab RIDETI – France – Blending art and derision, Fab Rideti constructs a theatrical, fantastical universe where play and spectacle seduce us before better revealing our contradictions. Straddling the border between the imaginary and reality, her photographs feature characters who tell us, without words, about human fragility and the excesses of our societies. Harmonious, aesthetic and completely offbeat, her works question our consumerist frenzy, which inflicts deforestation and pollution on nature.
Shihori YAMAMOTO – Japan – Intimately linked to her experience of mental illness, Shihori Yamamoto’s work is based on repetitive, therapeutic gestures such as tracing lines or sewing rags. Through installations and drawings dominated by red, a color she considers protective, the artist explores the tension between interior and exterior. The fluid superimposition of layers of paint illustrates how deep emotions are concealed beneath the surface. Her artistic universe also questions the anatomy of the human body and plays on contrasts between light and darkness, chaos and order, life and death.
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