Posted on 11 September 2026:
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Sacred Feminine: Three Women Redefine the Body and the Divine in Paris
This October, Paris becomes a meeting ground for art, ritual and the feminine as three contemporary women artists unveil Sacrés Féminins — a title that plays on the French word “sacré,” meaning both sacred and, colloquially, “quite something.”
Held at L’Atelier Envoûtant in Paris’s 12th arrondissement from October 2–4, the exhibition brings together strikingly different practices united by one question: where does the feminine body belong in the language of the sacred?
French photographer and mixed-media artist Véronique Durruty presents her provocative Sex-votos series, reimagining Christian iconography by placing the vulva at the heart of the crucifix — a gesture that reclaims space long denied to the feminine within religious visual culture. Véronique Durruty, journeys through senses and imagination, weaving beauty with the invisible. For nearly three decades, she has hybridized genres, published over forty books, and exhibited worldwide—from London to Tokyo, Pondicherry to Arles—her works treasured in collections across continents.
Critic Claude Nori has described her work as carrying images that are “sensual, mysterious and always harmoniously composed, close to the skin.”
Jeweller and sculptor Karine Niemand contributes ll.e.s., a series of jewellery and sculpture in silver and patinated copper, set with rare minerals whose natural formations echo the unpredictable poetry of chance.
Since 2008, her jewellery and art objects breathe Vanitas, blending metal, watercolour, photography, and performance—each piece a fragile meditation on impermanence, resilience, and the shifting beauty of existence.
Oslo-based artist Anne Léger unveils Les Gisantes, ceramic works inspired by the “gisant syndrome” — the idea of unknowingly carrying another’s unresolved grief. Her sculpted forms evoke organs and body fragments, turning clay into a record of memory and quiet transformation.
She transforms enamel, wood, and ceramics into intimate wearable sculptures. Since 2008, her creations echo memory, scars, and resilience—fragile yet enduring, poetic objects that carry the weight of personal histories with quiet elegance.
Together, the three artists — working in ink, metal and ceramic — offer three distinct meditations on the body, ritual and the divine feminine, blurring the line between fine art and craft.
The artists will be present throughout the exhibition to discuss their work with visitors, open daily 14:00–20:00, with appointments available outside these hours.
In Paris this October –three women turn body, ritual and material into sacred storytelling.
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