by Mala Yamey
“elles@centrepompidou” sparked your mission for women artists, could you tell me about the experience of curating the exhibition? It was not really an exhibition: it was a permanent collection display with only women artists. The principle was simple: we displayed only women artists from the permanent collection but it was a massive project because the 4th and 5th floors make up a big space in Centre Pompidou (80,729 square feet). We had to literally push out of the museum the grandmasters such as Picasso , Matisse, etc. to put women artists in their place. And all of that in a relatively short time… read more
