Miriam Cahn

Miriam Cahn is now one the most acclaimed artists on the contemporary scene. Since the 1970s, the Swiss artist has made her art an experiment. Her work is marked by the body and performance, which are present in her sculptures, her sweeping charcoal drawings or her famous paintings of silhouettes.

Combining the softness of the halo and the shock of color, her canvases become a physical experiment for the viewer facing them, confronting or connecting with her female, male, female and male, naked and free characters. Pointedly feminist, Miriam Cahn’s work is also a humanism that encompasses all that is living, as well as war, the atomic bomb and, more recently, those drowning in exile.

Besides paintings in the form of an installation, on view at Les Abattoirs are slide-shows, which reveal a body of work in perpetual transformation.

With the support of Pro Helvetia, Fondation suisse pour la culture. In partnership with les Abattoirs, Musée – Frac Occitanie Toulouse