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Open in the appOn the occasion of the release of her book Les Refusées – Les artistes femmes n'existent pas, the Centre de la photographie Genève invites art critic and exhibition curator Anne Bourrassé to share her research on the place of women in the contemporary art world. According to the… On the occasion of the release of her book Les Refusées – Les artistes femmes n'existent pas, the Centre de la photographie Genève invites art critic and exhibition curator Anne Bourrassé to share her research on the place of women in the contemporary art world. According to the French Ministry of Culture, it would still take one hundred and twenty years to achieve parity between women and men artists. Anne Bourrassé has done the math, and the statistics are damning: 70% of art school students are women, but they represent only 23% of artists in galleries and 6% of museum collections, while 85% of the highest incomes in contemporary art go to men. Based on these findings and her own journey, the author investigated gender, class and racial hierarchies in art history and their impact today. Who knows that behind the signature of Caravaggio was hidden that of Artemisia Gentileschi? That Augusta Savage paved the way for Jean-Michel Basquiat? That Janet Sobel invented dripping before Jackson Pollock? By confronting pairs of artists, testimonies and activist experiences, Anne Bourrassé demonstrates the systemic mechanisms of male domination. Anne Bourrassé (born in 1991; lives and works in Paris) is an exhibition curator, art critic and author whose practice is at the intersection of visual arts and humanities.