Iris Sara Schiller's Intimate Body Works at Musée Picasso

At Musée Picasso in Antibes, Iris Sara Schiller's exhibition 'Une fille est une fille est une fille d'une fille' (October 25, 2003 – January 25, 2004) presents a dense installation that forces intimate engagement with the works. The exhibition recreates a studio atmosphere by covering windows with satin paper, allowing only diaphanous light and blocking views of the sea. Works span drawings, paintings, digital prints on tarpaulin, sculptures, and video, unified by white formal purity and recurring poetic imagery. Fragmented body sculptures, reminiscent of Robert Gober in a feminine version, serve as metaphors for an absent body, rendered as smooth plaster casts. These are juxtaposed with old furniture—chairs, tables, bed frames, basins—repurposed through overturning or superimposition, some veiled like shrouds. The video 'La Tresse de la mère' shows the artist braiding her mother's white hair, reversing roles and evoking the umbilical cord. Schiller draws on Kabbalistic studies, referencing 'tselem,' a subtle sheath for the soul that evolves through life and persists after death. The exhibition explores the precarity of existence and the mortiferous nature of representation, opposing bodily fragility with spiritual transmutation.