Nude female figures rendered in muted beiges, reds, and browns pervade the large canvases crowding the walls of the intimate Centre LGBTQI+ in Paris (centrelgbtparis.org). However, these bodies are not serene nudes that cater to the male gaze. They are marked by violence, death, and psychological pain. Hope Mokded’s 2020 solo exhibition Violence intime: Pour cela qui n’arrive plus! (Intimate Violence: So It Does Not Happen Anymore!) lays bare the intimate suffering of women that is often obscured by its relegation to the so-called private sphere, and offers ecofeminism as a way of rethinking violence against women through the public-private divide.1
Mokded was born in 1988 in Gabès, Tunisia, and lives and works in Paris. She is a graduate of the Institut Supérieur des Beaux-Arts, Tunis, and of the Faculté des Arts, Université de Strasbourg. Violence intime ran from March 2 to 30, 2020, and...
