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Film pioneer refusing to fade

Acrylic and charcoal on paper

100 x 70 cm

Alice Guy-Blaché was the world’s first female film director — and one of its first fiction filmmakers, period. She directed hundreds of films, only to be systematically erased from cinema history. In this portrait, she takes center stage, while ghostlike male figures linger behind her: a visual metaphor for the erasure she endured. The work is both tribute and reclamation — of visibility, authorship, and voice.

Series icons. Reframed.
Colorful portrait of a woman with striking eyes, painted with loose brushstrokes, overlaid with various sketches of different faces in the background on a blue backdrop.
Colorful abstract portrait of a woman's face with blue eyes and dark eyebrows, painted with vibrant brush strokes and splashes of pink, yellow, blue, and purple.
Abstract painting of a woman's face with expressive brushstrokes and vibrant colors, including pink, blue, yellow, and black.

when masculanity took a holiday

In 1906, Alice Guy-Blaché imagined a world where men and women swap roles. The result? A comedy of manners that feels more Monty Python than manifesto. I show it here not as history, but as proof: laughter is the best critique.