Grisette à l'enfer
with Women’s History Museum
932 Grand
Join Women’s History Museum with Amant’s Associate Curator Patricia Margarita Hernández, and Curatorial Assistant, Ariana Kalliga, for a walkthrough of Grisette à l’enfer, the collective’s first institutional solo presentation in the United States. The artists will share personal insights into their artistic process, the works on view, and the relationship between exhibition-making and fashion.
The exhibition at Amant lends its title from the grisette, a figure that emerged in 17th-century France to represent the working-class women behind the fashion industry. Grisette à l’enfer, or “Grisette in Hell,” invokes this archetype as a contemporary avatar of survival and exhaustion through newly commissioned sculptural installations, a couture garment series, and a set reminiscent of Théâtre de la Mode—a 1945 traveling exhibition of miniature haute couture mannequins. The exhibition mines retail culture to illuminate the overlooked spaces where style and fantasy have long converged.