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On the beautiful Island of Porquerolles, off the coast of Hyères, the Carmignac Foundation presents the exhibition “The lnfinite Woman” which combines major works from the Carmignac collection with exceptional loans from private collections and public institutions (TATE, Musée d’art Moderne de Paris) as well as two produc- tions created specifically for the exhibition (France-Lise McGurn, Paloma Proudfoot) and four new works never before presented to the public (Sarah Ball, Chioma Ebi- nama, Chitra Ganesh & Naudline Pierre).
France-Lise McGurn also designed the exhibition poster and the catalog cover.
The title of the exhibition “The Infinite Woman” takes its inspiration from an epony- mous work by Shahzia Sikaander.
Throughout a thematic journey made up of more than eighty works, female figures appear in their sacred and nurturing form, as spiders or cyborgs but also as objects of desire.
Around sixty artists from all times, from all origins, from all spaces and from all genres use different artistic techniques, from video to sculpture, from painting to ceramics, from textiles to photography. New feminine stories are thus born, filled with power and enjoyment. Mythical, fatal, amorous, strong, sensual, angelic or demonic, the woman in the patriarchal vision of the world has seen her soul and her being under- mined or glorified in the mists of time.
Goddess or whore, monstrous or sublime, the feminine image poses fundamental questions of power and sexuality.
A stay on this divine island facing the infinite sea puts into perspective all the limits to magnify freedom of expression through the bodies celebrated in the uninhibited poetry of the feminine in its flesh and its light.