Les Procès du siècle © Benoit Guillaume

Can women's bodies free themselves from political stakes?

Les procès du siècle - Feminism, gender, minorities

  • Debate-
  • Meeting

With Ghada Amer (visual artist) and Wassyla Tamzali (writer, journalist, feminist activist, lawyer and former director of women’s rights at UNESCO).
From a distance: Eloïse Bouton (journalist, feminist activist).
Moderated by Tewfik Hakem.

With the participation of Hélia Paukner, heritage curator, head of the Contemporary Art department at Mucem.

Ghada Amer’s art is resolutely feminist. If her embroidered canvases are teeming with pin-ups and witches, it’s all the better to rehabilitate these female figures who have been demeaned, humiliated or hunted down. For over thirty years, her art has raised the question of women’s emancipation, self-fulfillment and freedom.
As Mucem devotes its first French retrospective to the artist, Ghada Amer takes part in this session of the Procès du siècle to address the question of the female body and the evolution of certain “achievements”. Abortion, religious prohibitions, representations: women’s bodies between emancipation and domination.

With Ghada Amer (visual artist) and Wassyla Tamzali (writer, journalist, feminist activist, lawyer and former director of women’s rights at UNESCO).
From a distance: Eloïse Bouton (journalist, feminist activist).
Moderated by Tewfik Hakem.

With the participation of Hélia Paukner, heritage curator, head of the Contemporary Art department at Mucem.

Ghada Amer’s art is resolutely feminist. If her embroidered canvases are teeming with pin-ups and witches, it’s all the better to rehabilitate these female figures who have been demeaned, humiliated or hunted down. For over thirty years, her art has raised the question of women’s emancipation, self-fulfillment and freedom.
As Mucem devotes its first French retrospective to the artist, Ghada Amer takes part in this session of the Procès du siècle to address the question of the female body and the evolution of certain “achievements”. Abortion, religious prohibitions, representations: women’s bodies between emancipation and domination.