Exposition RADIXx - Fanny Stehlin - ECLUSE - Bienne

“RadiXx” is an exhibition that offers insight into the roots of Fanny Stehlin’s creative journey and revolves around a central concept she has developed over the years: femininity.

Fanny Stehlin’s work always springs from a fleeting yet intense emotion. A nape of the neck, a shadow, a breath, the hinted curve of a breast: all of these serve as starting points for a deeper reflection on what it means to be a woman—today and throughout the ages. Her painterly expression aims to liberate all facets of the feminine from commercial gazes and constraints, thereby enabling a complete reappropriation. In doing so, she employs exaggeration to question desire and defy norms; the mischief lies in the illusion of beauty, which serves as bait. Or how an idealized and exposed body seeks to become a banner for womanhood as a subject.

Each work is accompanied by an epigram, a poetic fragment that underscores the lines and pigments and continues the dialogue between word and image. These texts do not merely comment on the works: they inhabit them. They add another layer of meaning, an extra breath that invites the viewer to linger and seek within the material what the words have initially only touched upon.

Trained in the academic arts and later in graphic design, Fanny Stehlin has built her body of work over time, shaped by questions, silence, and new beginnings. Her art has been criticized, fallen into obscurity, revived, and ultimately recognized, revealing femininity as the central theme of a practice that is at once deeply personal and resolutely political. Drawing on her multifaceted roots and half a century of life experience, she questions the meaning of the thousands of faces that have emerged from her fingers over the years. What stories do these beings made of ink and pigments have to tell?

“RadiXx” is this quest: a return to the roots to better understand what circulates, what endures, and what is passed on. A concise anthology that does not aim to draw conclusions, but rather to open up new perspectives—on lineage, on the body, on all the forms a woman can take when she is finally given a voice.

OPENINGAGEAG: Thursday, November 26, 2026, starting at 5 p.m.

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