Traits rebelles. Les femmes au coeur de la création artistique. @ Hôtel de Ville, Guyancourt, France: Dalila Dalléas Bouzar

Model? Artist? What role have women played in the history of art?
While women’s bodies—often nude and idealized—are omnipresent in museums around the world, women artists remain scarce within these same institutions. In an art history largely written by men, women were, until very recently, absent from art books and museums, despite having always participated in artistic life. As early as Antiquity, certain texts attest to their presence.

Today, women make up the majority of students in fine art schools; yet fewer than fifty appear among the top 500 artists on the contemporary art market. In 2018, only 19 women were counted among the 100 most visible artists worldwide. In 2021, women represented just 6.6% of the artists included in the collective catalogue of French museum collections.

The City of Guyancourt highlights a group of women artists who explore multiple questions related to the body, identities, violence, motherhood, caregiving roles, and artistic practices themselves.