The 18th Paris International Lesbian and Feminist Film Festival « Quand les lesbiennes se font du cinéma », from Friday, October 27th till Monday, October 30th, 2006, opens as every year its doors to the plastic artists at the Trianon theatre in Paris 18th, which, during 4 days, becomes a unique and global event around the lesbian and feminist culture, presenting in parallel of its programming of the Exhibitions. This year a new politics of exhibition was organized to propose 2 projects confided to 2 curators in different spaces.

FSPACE The FSPACE exhibition is viewed as a component of the event, and claim to be a place of infiltration with project designed specifically for the Festival location and spirit. Without neither predetermined space nor particular subject, the project for FSPACE will have to colonize the nook and crannies of the place, in it’s most unusual parts, an thus to get the productions out of the prescriptivism of traditional art show and change it to a living space. The exhibition, thus conceived, will have the will to disrupt our look and rapport to the artworks, making them a part of the meetings, the passers-by, the wait... The exhibition has the will to show how much the question of gender is at the core of the work of cotemporary artist trough an essentially international selection.

Mezzanine – Winter garden This space wants to promote every kind of creativity, drawing, engraving, painting, photo, colage, sculpture, video, multimedia, hapening... a place of visibility for feminist and lesbian expression. The mezzanine showcase this year a selection of 11 artists around activism. The Winter garden is dedicated to a review of the sculptural work of the artist Yeva which is the guest of honor of the festival.

In the winter garden The internationally-renowned Yeva is the guest of honour at this year’s exhibition of plastic arts, which will feature 11 artists. Yeva, is best known for her bronze and polished clay sculptures, works of loneliness, conviction, sincerity and intransigence which span more than 35 years of passion. Her sculpture is born out of a love of life, and the symbolism of love. She is deliberately figurative, and can also combine a hybrid world of animals and humans, animals and flowers and…women, nudity: a subject for which she has a predilection. Her work is marked by the vigour expressed by the feminine and masculine in the nude: a sculptured femininity. From a starting point of perfectionism in a formal sense and precise modelling, her sculptures ooze innovation, purity, the love of the human existence as animal. Her sculpture, which is harmonious and the association of the masculine and feminine in the Woman Being is always handled with volume with a deliberate will to stylisation. yeva-sculpteur.fr

The first floor of the Trianon: the mezzanine Christine Audin, wood sculptress. Among the works she will be exhibiting is Instant ambigu; which depicts the start of a relationship and the strangeness of a meeting with a partner-to-be. It shows the search for intimacy and difference in the other. christine.audin.free.fr   Catherine Hubert, photographer, sculptress and writer, questions through these 4 polaroid photos the feminine stereotypes of women’s bodies, by displaying her own body and that of her lover. catherinehubert The authoress will also do a reading of her poetry - October, Sunday 29 from 12p.m. to 12:30p.m. Cris Bregeon, digital photographer. In her series of Eaux troubles photo-images she depicts one of the four elements of life: water. Through darkness and light, calm and excitement, lucidity and disturbance, the natural and the distorted... "Our being and emotions are sometimes so perceptible for those who can listen."   Anne-Sophie Jal, photographer. Her black and white photographs take their inspiration from the book by the writer Alina Reyes: the woman’s body. She is putting on show her Poursuivre and Perfect Body series of photos which are on the theme "love bodies, love life." FB Anne-Sophie Jal   Cathy Peylan, photographer. This year with the series Girl on the dark side, Cathy questions llesbian sexuality and the hidden face of our sensual pleasure, the icouple, infidelity, guilt and physical love. www.peylan.com Natacha Lemoine, photographer and poet. Natacha puts in question and challenges the concept of masculine and feminine types with her exhibition of five photographs in pastel and solar colours: "Ni Roses, ni bleus - Ni Bleu, ni rose." The authoress will also do a reading of her poetry - October, Saturday 28 from 12p.m. to 12:30p.m.     Rebecca Gruel, artist and poet, is putting on show paintings which are influenced by Jackson Pollock, impressionism and surrealism. Non figurative, on a dark blue-black background crossed by coloured lines, the photos take the viewer into a state of sensitivity and dream. A text written and illustrated by the artist, Hiroshima, will also be on show. Done on bamboo with splashes of ink the work reminds us of Hiroshima. FB Rebecca Gruel The authoress will also do a reading of her poetry - October, Monday 30 from 12p.m. to 12:30p.m. Sophie Lannier, sculptress and painter, uses materials such as wood, paper, plants and silk to express her freedom and poetry as a woman. sophielannier.jimdofree.com   Sylvie Poinsot, painter and pastellist, is showing her paintings of women. Through form, movement, vivid colours, her paintings express feelings and emotions. It is a "free transposition of the real." sylviepoinsot.artiste-com.com Marie-Geneviève Havel, painter-engraver-computer graphic artist, takes us into her world of sensitive portrayal and reveals, just like in a dream, the primary walk-on part. She engraves and, through her grooves opens a "Reflection of emotions to go beyond daily life, to be able to name oneself, give of oneself, between women too." m.g.havel.free.fr     Christelle Vincent-Poupin, photographer. Her militant look at lesbians brings us: Portrait, body and lack. www.cvincentpoupinphotography.com