Echoes of Her

Echoes of Her
12th June, 2025 – 30th August, 2025
Maruani Mercier
Avenue Louise 430
1050 Brussels

In Echoes of Her, Seventeen Artists Reimagining Womanhood Through Generational, Cultural, and Personal Lenses

Featuring Cornelius Annor, Kwesi Botchway, Louise Bourgeois, Jaclyn Conley, Francesco Clemente, Michael Dweck, Esiri Erheriene-Essi, Eric Fischl, Kate Gottgens, Joan Jonas, Titus Kaphar, Alex Katz, David LaChapelle, McDermott & McGough, Toiletpaper, Andy Warhol and Sue Williams.

Maruani Mercier will present Echoes of Her, a group exhibition that brings together the work of seventeen artists to examine shifting ideas of womanhood—how it has been portrayed, perceived, and experienced across time and place.

The show includes works by Louise Bourgeois, Alex Katz, Joan Jonas, Titus Kaphar, David LaChapelle, Andy Warhol, and others, spanning painting, photography, sculpture, and mixed media. The artists—working across generations and geographies—approach the subject with a variety of strategies: some directly address historical representation; others work from personal memory, myth, or quiet observation.

At the center of the exhibition is a concern with visibility—who gets seen, how, and on whose terms. Some pieces question long-held artistic and cultural assumptions; others offer alternatives grounded in lived experience. Jaclyn Conley’s Night Giant features a lone woman whose towering presence alters the surrounding landscape. Her scale feels both symbolic and personal—a figure who interrupts the familiar frame. In MOSCOW (Nature’s Naked Loveliness), David LaChapelle creates a lavish, ironic vision of idealized femininity, drawing attention to the spectacle and artifice behind its construction.

Esiri Erheriene-Essi, by contrast, turns to domestic life. Her painting The Surprise focuses on everyday scenes drawn from family archives and historical photographs. Her figures are rendered with care and specificity—women neither monumentalized nor generalized, but seen on their own terms.

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Throughout the exhibition, viewers encounter not a single vision of womanhood, but a range of responses—reflecting the tensions between visibility and erasure, tradition and reinvention. Rather than offering a manifesto or a thesis, Echoes of Her allows for ambiguity. It acknowledges the limits of representation while continuing to test its possibilities.

If there is a message here, it is not that womanhood is one thing or another, but that it is never just one thing.

Echoes of Her opens on the 12th of June, 2025 until the 30th of August, 2025 at Maruani Mercier

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