T H E S C A R L E T W O M E N 2021-2022
ATELIER MELUSINE
4 Rue de Trupet La Trimouille France 8629011 December 2021 – 08 March 2022

Exhibiting artists and experts include: Penny Slinger, Stephen Pope, Siena Barnes, Roberta Gotti, Francesca Lucidi, Eva Macali, Eva Loubrieu, Sarah Sparkes, Hazel Florez, Cinzia Cremona, Yiota Panayiotis, Elisha Fall, Censi Annett-Henry, Tiffany Trenda, Bint Al-Shalabiya, Henrik Bogdan, Khara Oxier-Mori, Sólveig Guðmundsdóttir, Margaret Haines, Emily Jane & Alana Bowden + ANON

I’m really excited to announce that four giclée prints of my Blue GHost Girls from the 101 GHost-story paintings have joined The Scarlet Women in France.

The physical group exhibition, performances, talks and other events is taking place over three months. You can also join a programme of free online events and see some of the artists’ work online: https://www.atelierdemelusine.com/scarlet-women-exhibition

See the website for opening times, which vary with COVID-19 restrictions but do please make an appointment to view the works.

‘The Scarlet Women project’ is led and produced by artist Sally Annett and historian of religion Dr Manon Hedenborg White and addresses concepts of the divine and suppressed feminine in her pariah aspects, often unnamed but hidden in plain sight.

The project emerges from discussions around the lost narratives of women throughout (religious) history in the West; of why women’s histories and languages, often oral mythologies, craft, agricultural and medicinal practices have not just been lost and altered but destroyed? Over the centuries, the suppressed female creatrix has re-emerged as the Mother of Abominations; Babalon the Great. Often interpreted as courtesan, prostitute, harlot, unmarried mother, the barren wife, the possessed or insane, the crone or witch. Also envisioned in the forms of Kali, Medusa, Mary Magdalene and Eve; the feminine pariah draws power from the transgression of boundaries between perversion and purity; holy and profane.

The exhibition offers contemporary imaginings and manifestations of the

‘Scarlet Woman’. These take the form of audio-visual installation, photographs, films, prints, paintings, collage, sculpture, text and artefacts as well as a region wide scarlet trail.

Based in the ATELIER MELUSINE in the French town of La Trimouille and the nearby Château Mareuil the work presents the Scarlet Women from a female perspective. The exhibition is accompanied by a series of expert lectures, panels and dialogues exploring the iconic feminine form from the Western esoteric, contemporary combined arts and ancient biblical and Talmudic perspective.

The project launch also hosts a series of lectures, meditations and discussions over the weekend. For more information, editorial and images please contact: Sally Annett on annett897@btinternet.com Link : https://www.atelierdemelusine.com/scarlet-women-exhibition

EVENTS
Saturday 11/12/21
Vernissage 14.00 – 15.00 Château Mareuil
Penny Slinger. Installations ‘Reclaiming Scarlet’
Les billets sont gratuits mais les places sont limitées.

Vernissage 18.00 Café du Centre, Welcome Celebration – ‘Balades des Artistes 5’
Dress Code Red! Célébration de bienvenue – ‘Balades des Artistes 5’ Dress Code Red!

Lecture 19.45 (18:30 UK) ATELIER MELUSINE
Manon Hedenborg White
Title: The Goddess Babalon and the Scarlet Woman in Western Esotericism
Zoom Link : https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88160596876?pwd=eXdHb21BQ2JadUtFRDlOaHNLQVI2UT09
Real world guests need to arrive at 19.30 to be seated.
Language : English

Sunday 12/12/21
10.00 Féminin sacré, la forêt de l’arbre biblique par Bruno Founcherea

This is an Online event but will be broadcast live from the ATELIER MELUSINE to book tickets on line please go the page below and follow the links: https://www.facebook.com/events/296638745712487?ref=newsfeed
Language : Française

14.00 Conference and Round Table event
The Scarlet Woman in Western Esotericism and the Artistic Occulture from the Fin-de-Siècle until Today
Panelists: Henrik Bogdan, Sólveig Guðmundsdóttir, Margaret Haines
Moderator: Manon Hedenborg White
Zoom link : https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89149513782?pwd=R3R3TmdNN2NpaExHNGFWemZMcVVQdz09
Language : English

This roundtable takes as its starting point the ways in which the Scarlet Woman – up until the nineteenth century connoting a prostitute or sexually “immoral” woman – has been reinterpreted as an esoteric office, especially within Aleister Crowley’s (1875–1947) religion Thelema and among its later adherents. Bringing together experts on Western esotericism and the artistic occulture, this roundtable will explore the shifting meaning of the Scarlet Woman in the intersecting spheres of esoteric and artistic expression from the early twentieth century until today in relation to the changing stakes of femininity, magic, and transgression during this time.

Cette table ronde a pour point de départ la manière dont la Femme écarlate – qui, jusqu’au XIXe siècle, évoquait une prostituée ou une femme sexuellement “immorale” – a été réinterprétée en tant qu’office ésotérique, notamment au sein de la religion Thelema d’Aleister Crowley (1875-1947) et parmi ses adhérents ultérieurs. Réunissant des experts de l’ésotérisme occidental et de l’occulture artistique, cette table ronde explorera la signification changeante de la Femme Ecarlate dans les sphères croisées de l’expression ésotérique et artistique du début du vingtième siècle jusqu’à aujourd’hui, en relation avec les enjeux changeants de la féminité, de la magie et de la transgression durant cette période.

Real and virtual world platforms.
Tickets are free but the event has limited places, to reserve : annett897@btinternet.com
Virtual : Zoom Link https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89149513782?pwd=R3R3TmdNN2NpaExHNGFWemZMcVVQdz09

Meditation 16.00
Yiota Pannayioyis ‘Medition on Red’
Yiota Pannayioyis “Méditation sur le rouge”

‘A guided meditation that encourages the exploration of the principles that the Scarlet Woman embodies. By accessing our own feeling and imagination, we have the opportunity through this meditation to touch upon the meaning of the ‘scarlet red’ within us, and the inner, life-giving gifts that it has to offer.’

Une méditation guidée qui encourage l’exploration des principes que la femme écarlate incarne. En accédant à nos propres sentiments et à notre imagination, nous avons la possibilité, grâce à cette méditation, d’aborder la signification du “rouge écarlate” qui est en nous, et les dons intérieurs et vitaux qu’il a à offrir.

Language : English
Tickets are free but the event has limited places, to reserve : annett897@btinternet.com
Virtual : Zoom Link https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83716564817?pwd=OW0welQxV01BWGc4OS9PYXpLRnRndz09