Summary:
- Exhibition showcases work from seven European artists exploring women's football
- Artists use memory, humor and material experimentation to examine the sport
- Show runs through December 7 at Galerie Joseph in Paris
A new exhibition at Galerie Joseph in Paris examines the changing relationship between women and football. DAUGHTERS brings together work from seven artists across Europe who explore how women see themselves in the sport today.
The show features Alina Akbar, Alessandra Francesca Coppola, Clara Borde De Castro, Emmely Elgersma, Emily Bisgaard, Nicole Chui and Ruth Emma Davis. Each artist approaches football from a different angle. Some work with personal memory. Others use humor or experiment with materials to express their connection to the game.
Systemarosa organized the exhibition. The interdisciplinary platform was founded by Naomi Accardi and Sam Herzog. Their work focuses on documenting and reframing the cultural history of women's football. This exhibition continues that mission.
The curators describe DAUGHTERS as a project they had planned for some time. "It is personal and rooted in lived experience," they explain. They wanted to create space for dialogue between artists and fans. The goal was to make visitors feel they could see themselves in the work.
The exhibition responds to changes happening in women's football right now. More women attend matches. More girls play the sport. Media coverage has expanded. The culture around women's football looks different than it did five years ago.
The artists in DAUGHTERS document this shift from inside the community. Their work does not observe from a distance. They create from their own experiences with the sport. This perspective shapes how they represent women's football culture.
Each artist brings different methods to the subject. Some create visual work. Others focus on conceptual approaches. The variety of practices reflects the range of ways women engage with football today.
The exhibition fills multiple rooms at Galerie Joseph. The gallery sits in the Marais district at 43 Rue des Tournelles in Paris's third arrondissement. The space allows visitors to move between different artistic interpretations of women's football.
Systemarosa has worked on several projects related to women's football before this exhibition. Accardi and Herzog research and document the sport's cultural aspects. They examine how women's football intersects with art, fashion and social movements.
DAUGHTERS adds to this ongoing work. The exhibition presents women's football through artistic practice rather than sports journalism or academic analysis. This approach reveals aspects of the culture that other methods miss.
The show runs for five days only. It opened December 3 and closes December 7. The short run gives the exhibition a temporary quality. Visitors need to plan their trip to the gallery before the weekend ends.
Paris hosts the exhibition during a period of growth for women's football in France. The national team has achieved success in international competition. Domestic league attendance has grown. Women's football clubs receive more investment than in previous years.
DAUGHTERS does not celebrate these developments directly. The exhibition looks at personal experience instead of institutional progress. The artists explore what it means to be a woman who follows or plays football now.
The work in the show addresses questions about representation and visibility. Women's football existed long before recent media attention. The sport has its own history and culture. DAUGHTERS acknowledges this history while documenting the present moment.
Visitors to the gallery will find work that reflects on football from multiple perspectives. The exhibition does not present a single narrative about women's football. It offers seven different voices instead.
The show closes this Saturday. Anyone interested in contemporary art or football culture should visit Galerie Joseph before December 7.
Maya Torelli
Straddling the worlds of art and communication, this creative professional established People in 2009, a content agency specializing in the fusion of words and visuals. Over the years, her work has spanned a variety of projects, including magazines and documentary films. Beyond her commercial endeavors, she dedicates herself to exploring the nature of imagery, with a particular focus on its interplay with other media forms, especially music. Her passion for music not only fuels her writing but also deeply influences her work as a filmmaker, shaping both her documentaries and video installations. With a voracious appetite for knowledge across philosophy, sociology, anthropology, and various scientific disciplines, she weaves these diverse interests into a unique, interdisciplinary approach to content creation, perspective-taking, and writing.