Avant-garde women artists

What place do women artists occupy in moments of rupture with the past? This talk proposes a narrative journey through three figures who, between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, transformed the languages of their time by making the body a space of experimentation and a vehicle for innovation. Camille Claudel brought into sculpture a vital and despairing body, charged with tension and desire, capable of shifting the boundaries of plastic language. The dancer and choreographer Loïe Fuller transformed the stage into an apparition: fabric, electric light and movement gave life to new and unsettling bodies. The artist and musician Yoko Ono introduced rupture into the very idea of the artwork: the body becomes an active presence, a radical and experimental “flow”.