Monday morning, the employees of the Frac Centre-Val de Loire had the unpleasant surprise of noticing the theft of a feminist work exhibited since last fall in the courtyard.
A complaint has been filed, the director of the institution, Abdelkader Damani, told AFP on Wednesday.
Entitled
Bikini Kill,
this work by visual artist Sammy Engramer is a tribute to the New York punk rock group of the same name,
"pro-feminist and very militant"
, active in the 1990s. 4m high and slightly wider, the work, property of the Frac and exhibited outside, consists of a dark tarpaulin, fixed on a support, on which is written in Gothic letters
"Fuck Patriarchy".
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According to surveillance cameras, the theft occurred at 4 a.m.
“Individuals cut this tarp from its support and left with it.
We do not know if it is a stupidity of young people or something more serious”
, explained Abdelkader Damani, recalling the symbolic force of the work beyond the title.
With the agreement of the artist,
"we will proceed with the restoration of the work to the identical"
, indicated Abdelkader Damani, confirming information from the site magcentre.fr.
Among the axes of the Frac d'Orléans project for the next few years is in particular the desire to think of the institution
"as a laboratory of a feminist democracy (...) A democracy which allows us to judge ourselves every day on the fundamental question which is worth asking: the freedom of women
.