In 1972 the exhibition Woman House marked a pivotal moment in the history of feminist art. Women artists, excluded from galleries and museums, decided to take over an abandoned house in Los Angeles to create feminist art works and performances, to alert the art world of the profound inequality between genders. Almost forty years later, the exhibition Women House that took place at the Monnaie de Paris in 2016 focused on the way in which women artists explored representations of the home, the domestic sphere and architecture. There, several generations of feminist artists were brought together. In spring 2020, the cofounders of AWARE Camille Morineau, curator of the exhibition Women House at the Monnaie de Paris, and writer Julie Wolkenstein, have created the podcast in response to the confinement imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. In the first episode of Women House, director and cofounder of AWARE Camille Morineau chose five excerpts from a text that is particularly dear to her: Writing [Écrire] by Marguerite Duras. AWARE is a non-profit organization co-founded in 2014 by Camille Morineau. AWARE’s podcast Women House is made possible by the support of Belinda de Gaudemar. Produced by Elodie Royer. Sound by Andrew Nelson. The english version of this episode is read by Muriel Zagha. Picture credits : Marguerite Duras on the set of the movie Écrire [Writing], directed by Benoit Jacquot, 1993, © Helene Bamberger/Opale / Bridgeman Images Hébergé par Ausha. Visitez ausha.co/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

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