LES FEMMES A L'OEUVRE: Musée de Pont-Aven

From June to September 2024, the Musée de Pont-Aven is preparing an exhibition on "Les femmes à l'œuvre, chez/pour les Nabis".
 
The object of this exhibition is not to reappraise forgotten figures in a logic of exhumation. There is no question here of greatness, originality or exceptionality. On the contrary, the role and actions of women among the Nabis will be presented here as closely correlated to those of men, embracing conventions and positions traditionally assigned to women at the time. This entourage of wives, sisters, mothers, mothers-in-law and lovers is intended as an entry point for a closer look at the conditions of production, the logics of influence and the creative processes at work among the Nabis. Following on from a number of recent works, "Femmes à l'œuvre" aims to question existing tensions between the work and the work, the aesthetic and the useful, Part and craft, amateurism and professionalism, the artist and the model, the active and the passive, the visible and the invisible, in order to complicate a vision of the group that has often been masculine, divided and not very mixed.
 
On the occasion of this exhibition: "Femmes à l'œuvre", Helene Bailly will lend two works by Edouard Vuillard "Madame Vuillard cousant, scène d'intérieur" and "Lucy Hessel en visite chez les Roussel à Criqueboeuf" to the Musée de Pont-Aven, France.