In an illusory way, the installation lets believe in the presence of Brigitte Bardot naked behind a sheet and instinctively covets the spectators to look behind; where they find the impression of the bust of the actress, at the limit of her chest fixed to a tripod.​

In front of her, an excerpt from a video borrowed from Youtube (a woman, Vida Movahed, mounted on an electrical cabinet, brandishing a stick on which and attached a white veil) in looped, without sound in a smartphone; on a tripod in the center of a luminous ring with the Iranian flag as case.​

The assembly between the bed sheet and Brigitte Bardot is the reproduction of a scene from Roger Vadim’s film Et dieu créa la femme. Interest in the work Étant donné by Marcel Duchamp participated in the development of this piece (for the “theatrical” assemblage, the staging, the optical game, voyeurism, …).​

The installation questions the status of women, the culture of injunction and oppression of female bodies by aesthetic and religious diktats; the primary function of a woman, to be desirable or an object of desire ?​

In his treatise on painting Leon Battista Alberti considers the painting like ‘a window open to reality’ ; in a less conventional way and more contemporary, Pauline François conceives sculpture in the same way ; like an openness, a singular look at the world. She seeks to produce parts that can fuel the reflection, disturbing affects, generating new ones associations of ideas and forms. This is a quest permanent which consists in materializing thought. Ultimately, the challenge is to return to the world and life, to marry human and social history … with the maximum of relevance, delicacy… and sometimes cruelty.​

Pauline François (b. 1990 in France) lives and works in Brussels. She graduated from a Master in Sculpture at ENSAV La Cambre in 2020. Her work was recently shown at the Centre Wallonie Bruxelles, Paris (FR), Centre Culturel EDEN, Charleroi (BE), Centre Wallon d’Art Contemporain “ La Châtaigneraie”, Flémalle (BE), Centre Vanderborght, Brussels (BE), Island, Brusels (BE) or at La Centrale d’Art Contemporain, Brussels (BE). She has been resident at ARTWELL, an artistic residency program in Amsterdam (NL) and RAVI, Résidences Ateliers Vivegnis International, a residency/workshop program for visual artists working in the field of contemporary art on the Vivegnis site in Liege.