Camille Tsvetoukhine: THE (MU-LU)TANTS
The exhibition THE (MU-LU)TANTS is based on the history of women's strikes in France at the beginning of the 20th century, in particular on the strikes of Les transbordeuses d'oranges (women who reloaded oranges) in 1904 in Cerbère, one of the first all-female strikes in France, and of Les sardinières (sardine workers) in Douarnenez. The women had to do hard labor for up to 18 hours a day and went on strike to be paid a little more in order to make a living. After a long struggle, these women's movement managed to achieve a victory against patriarchal capitalism. (MU-LU)TANTS is a neologism that brings together the idea of the militant and the mutant woman. Based on this research, the artist Camille Tsvetoukhine wants to show how these events affect feminism today.
For the Kebbel Villa, Camille Tsvetoukhine has created a fictional story about an industrialist called Herr Max, who owns a factory for bow ties, in which the story of the female workers repeats itself. In this exhibition, the artist revisits the past in order to question the present.
Camille Tsvetoukhine (*1987 in Angers, FR, lives in Paris, FR) studied visual communication at ENSBA in Angers in France from 2005-2010 and contemporary artistic practices at HEAD Geneva in Switzerland from 2011-2013. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including at Loevenbruck Gallery, Paris, FR (2024), Art au Centre, Liège, BE (2021), Centre d'art Parc St Léger, Nevers, FR (2019), Salon, Madrid, ES (2016), Halle Nord, Geneva, CH (2015), Biennale de Belleville, Paris, FR (2014). She received prizes and stipends, e.g. for research (ADAGP 2024), production grants from the Fondation des Artistes and DRAC Ile de France (2020) and from New Heads - Fondation BNP Paribas Art Award (2013) had recidencies at the Kebbel Villa, Schwandorf, DE (2023), Bonus, Nantes, FR (2022), Parc st Léger, Pougues les eaux, FR (2019), Les Capucins, Embrun, FR (2017) and Matadero, Madrid, ES (2016).
