RadiXx — An exhibition by Fanny Stehlin At L'Écluse, Biel

"RadiXx" returns to the roots of Fanny Stehlin's creative journey, around a concept she has forged over the years: féminité as féminalité — feminine essence as subject, not object.

Her work always begins with a fleeting but intense emotion. A nape, a shadow, a breath: each one a doorway into what it means to be a woman, today and through the ages. To free the feminine from commercial gazes and imposed norms, and return it to full ownership — excess questions desire, mischief becomes the bait, and the idealised body becomes the standard of woman as subject.

Every work is inhabited by an epigram, a poetic fragment that extends the dialogue between word and image.

Trained in academic and later graphic arts, Fanny Stehlin has built her body of work over time, through questioning and starting again. Féminalité emerges as the thread running through it — deeply personal and resolutely political.

"RadiXx" is that quest: back to the sources, to understand what circulates, what persists, what is passed on. An anthology that does not seek to conclude but to open — onto lineage, onto the body, onto every form a woman can take when she is finally given back her voice.

Exhibition opening: Thursday 26 November at 5.00 pm

Free admission