MARUANI MERCIER - Echoes of her, group show

With this group exhibition, Echoes of Her, Maruani Mercier aim to explore the multifaceted nature of womanhood and examine its complexity through a diverse selection of works and artists. Seventeen artists, each shaped by distinct cultural, geographical, and personal perspectives, reflect on the layered intricacies of womanhood across different lived realities and social landscapes. Ranging painting, photography, sculpture, and mirrored works that at times quite literally implicate the viewer, the exhibition brings forth meditations on identity, visibility, and the shifting roles women inhabit. How are women perceived in society? And more importantly, how do they see themselves, beyond inherited expectations, projected archetypes, or prescribed narratives? It questions long-held assumptions about the female condition, invites us to look again, and differently, at the images we’ve inherited, and considers how portrayals by both female and male artists can contribute to a more complex, layered understanding of what it means to be a woman. A nuanced dialogue emerges not only between the artists and their subjects, subtly engaging with the legacy of the (male) gaze and the power dynamics embedded in representation, while embracing the richness of self-determined representation.

David LaChapelle, MOSCOW (Nature’s Naked Loveliness), 2003
C-Print on Dibond, 246 x 183 cm, 97 x 72 in
A.P. N° 1/3

Kwesi Botchway, Feeling Purple, 2024
oil on canvas, 124 x 95 cm, 48 x 38 in