Monique Gies (France, 1934–2022) was 43 years old when she abruptly decided to leave her husband, children, and bourgeois life as a school principal in Strasbourg to isolate herself in a chambre de bonne in Paris. She immediately began psychoanalytic therapy and created a significant series of small-format works that evoke the incest she endured at a very young age. She became involved in feminist circles and notably contributed to the magazine Sorcières between 1978 and 1979. In fact, she was featured in the 1979 exhibition of nineteen women artists organized by Sorcières.
This body of work remained was only truly discovered after Gies’s passing and was exhibited for the first time at the Christophe Gaillard Gallery in Paris in 2024. The exhibition was accompanied by a publication issued by the gallery.
