Artists

Andy Warhol, Francesco Clemente, Sue Williams, Cornelius Annor, Esiri Erheriene-Essi, Eric Fischl, Kwesi Botchway, Jaclyn Conley, Kate Gottgens, David LaChapelle, McDermott & McGough, Toiletpaper

Press release

Maruani Mercier is pleased to announce Echoes of Her, a group exhibition at its Brussels gallery. With this exhibition, we aim to explore the multifaceted nature of womanhood by examining its complexity through a diverse selection of works and artists. In Echoes of Her, seventeen artists, each shaped by distinct cultural, geographical, and personal perspectives, reflect on the layered intricacies of womanhood across different lived realities and social landscapes.

Ranging painting, photography, sculpture, and mirrored works that at times quite literally implicate the viewer, the exhibition brings forth meditations on identity, visibility, and the shifting roles women inhabit. How are women perceived in society? And more importantly, how do they see themselves, beyond inherited expectations, projected archetypes, or prescribed narratives?

Echoes of Her takes an engaged stance, stepping away from depictions of womanhood in a limited and singular way, shaped largely by narrow, dominant perspectives. It questions long-held assumptions about the female condition, invites us to look again, and differently, at the images we’ve inherited, and considers how portrayals by both female and male artists can contribute to a more complex, layered understanding of what it means to be a woman. A nuanced dialogue emerges not only between the artists and their subjects, subtly engaging with the legacy of the (male) gaze and the power dynamics embedded in representation, while embracing the richness of self-determined representation.