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The exhibition "Women," presented by the UNESCO Chair in International Communication, GRESEC, and the Medicine-Pharmacy Library, brings together five artists whose works offer a poetics of the female body as a territory of memory, spirituality, and genesis. In the selected works, the body does not appear as an object of observation, but as a subject of enunciation: a body that speaks, remembers, claims, and reconnects with the earth.

Ivorian artist Mamadou Ballo is the special guest of this artistic program. He will be at the University of Grenoble Alpes from April 15 to 24, 2026, to participate in the exhibition opening, lead a participatory creation workshop, and engage with students and members of the institution. His visit was made possible through a collaboration between the UNESCO Chair in International Communication at UGA and the Ministry of Culture of Côte d'Ivoire. Mamadou Ballo's works, primarily paintings and sculptures, explore sensory realities using everyday objects, often recycled, to evoke the female body as a source of life. Through contemporary art, the exhibition presents works that position us at the boundary between art and ancestral traditions. Mamadou, for example, draws upon ancestral knowledge in his contemporary artistic production, which is structured around ecological and environmental concerns.
The creations of these artists, from Latin America and Africa, do not separate the body, territory, and knowledge, and establish relationships with other living beings. Meanwhile, the works of Mamadou, Kaiwino, Daiara, and Jaider invite us to experience other ways of relating to the environment.

Exhibition presentation on Friday, April 17th at 12pm