Visionnaires, carte blanche à Prune Nourry

At the Petit Palais, the exhibition 'Visionnaires' brings eighteen portraits of women sculptors into the museum's collections. Prune Nourry selected these women, from Jane Poupelet to Selma Hortense Burke, to reframe their careers and their works within the field of view.

On the forecourt, 'Mothership', a pregnant figure whose shape borrows from a boat hull, opens the route. Inside, the busts created for this carte blanche respond to the museum's sculptures. Nourry revisits the plaster, present in many studio models in the collection, and slips marble eyes into her portraits, as in some pedestals. This detail links works from different periods, from the sculpture gallery to the garden.

In the lead-up, three art historians gathered photographs and writings to document these eighteen trajectories. Some of these texts appear in the audio guide, where contemporary artists lend their voices to the women sculptors.

Practical information
- Closed on Mondays, and on December 25 and January 1.