Exhibition's poster :

14/02/2005

Faithful to its expertise, creativity and development values, FBS Banking has involved itself in a patronage policy. The first artist benefiting from the support of our group is Laurence Verrier with her exhibition entitled: �Le cercle des femmes� which is taking place from February 26 th to March 14 th in l'Orangerie du Parc de la T�te d'Or in Lyon.

In this project, Laurence Verrier offers women not familiar with cameras and photo shootings a framework and a means of expressing themselves. The artist has met a hundred women of different ages, origins and coming from different horizons who have questioned themselves on the idea of feminity. Following these encounters, a hundred photographs have been taken. The axis of this project is a long piece of red fabric which each woman has used to stand in front of the camera with. This fabric has either become a piece of clothing or a way to express oneself. It also symbolizes the "red cord", the tie between women also named "heritage".

This work is the first step from a larger research on masculinity and feminity, and the relationship between the two. The next step will consist of doing one hundred portraits of men in order to; finally, put 200 portraits together in a mirror-type presentation.

A sample of the exhibition:

The rest of the exhibition is available on the website cercle des femmes.

Exhibition in the « Orangerie »: