For Le Nouveau Printemps, Randa Maroufi has created a fourth part of her series Les Intruses, started in 2018.
Adept at long takes, composing photographs as if they were movie scenes, or directing films like a photograph in movement, the artist decided to shoot in Toulouse’s places of power—be it judicial, symbolic or educational, such as the law courts or the Dean’s room at Université Toulouse Capitole. Randa Maroufi invited women, in all their diversity, to take a seat around large tables in these spaces.

In the artist’s striking and inclusive staging, these women remind the viewer of the difficulty of imagining a different division of roles. For Randa Maroufi, it is about symbolically occupying spaces of power and envisioning new horizons through fiction. Far removed from simplification, the artist challenges us: how do we imagine a society where progress would transform social value and engender equality?

Produced by Le Nouveau Printemps.
This project has received the support of the Ministry of Culture as part of its program to promote artistic commissions.
In partnership with Toulouse Court of Appeals and Université Toulouse Capitole.
With the participation of students of the Master’s program in Administration and Communication in Cultural Events at Université Toulouse Capitole (tutor: Martine Regourd) and the unfailing support of Gilbert Cousteaux.