For a long time, the Schools of Fine Arts remained inaccessible to women, and even when they had the opportunity to enter, "nude classes" were strictly forbidden to them. Despite these moral and societal obstacles, women artists have been able to overcome these constraints to appropriate, divert and reinvent this subject -or even make it their battlehorse, in full swing of modernity.
A major figure in the current feminist and artistic debate, the Palais des Beaux-Arts invites Camille Morineau, art historian and co-founder of the association AWARE: Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions, who is committed to raising awareness of the works of women artists and restoring their place in art history. As General Curator of the pioneering exhibition "Elles@centrepompidou" in 2009, she helped to highlight these talents that are often overlooked in France.