At the Ladies’ Table is a solo exhibition by French sculptor Cécile Raynal, on view from June 7 to August 31, 2025, at the Abbaye de Montivilliers in Normandy, France. Presented in this historic former women’s abbey, the exhibition explores themes of femininity, memory, and animality through a poetic ensemble of sculptural portraits. It brings together fifteen years of the artist’s work, including two new installations created especially for the site.
Cécile Raynal’s work oscillates between her studio in Normandy and residencies in places on the fringes of society: prisons, hospitals, convents… In these places, she creates clay portraits based on the interactions with the people she meets. Back in the studio, the artist extends this approach by drawing on a vast repertoire of tales, myths and literary references, giving rise to sculptures of animals and hybrid creatures, half-human, half-animal. Thanks to the animal figures in her pieces, the artist promotes to the viewers’ eyes the common language and the interactions between beasts and man.
You can find Cécile Ryanal biography, CV and artworks here: https://artistics.com/artist/cecile-raynal/
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