Brigitte Zieger is interested in the ambivalence of the seducing power of violence. In this series, it is the image of the armed woman, largely displayed in the media and in films, that altogether fascinates, seduces, and frightens. We have already seen, in her exhibition Face au mur (Facing the wall at the Musée de Pully, a beautiful romantic lady shooting at us noisily before blending back into an animated toile de Jouy. Here, girls, killers, shooters, gunslingers, sexy or grandmas, unknown individuals or icons of the armed struggle, are pointing at us, brandishing guns on the extreme surface of the image.
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