Art history is currently in the process of revising the accepted white male canon by uncovering overlooked female artists. The recent explosion in interest of Artemisia Gentileschi highlights this shift, as major exhibitions aim to separate her extraordinary work from the violent sexual assault that overshadows her biography.
We visited the Female Artists of the Mougins Museum, in Mougins, a small village on a hill near Cannes. Full of exclusively female artists from Berthe Morisot in the 19th century and Frida Kahlo in the early 20th to contemporary figures such as Tracey Emin it houses an incredible collection of often overlooked art and artists. We visited on a rainy October day and it was remarkably quiet and calm. I particularly enjoyed the abstract works well worth a trip up the hill.
"I couldn't sing in air conditioned rooms," she told NPR in 1982. "Which presented great problems in Las Vegas. They had to shut the air conditioning off, and the people would wilt. And I would, and the band would."
Morteza Khakshoor introduces female figures into his pictorial universe, expanding the emotional register of his psychologically charged scenes. Domestic interiors, uncanny landscapes, and moments of stillness reveal layered narratives and unresolved tension.
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