Barbara Chase-Riboud’s impressive career began at the age of seven, when she enrolled in adult art classes at the Philadelphia Museum and the Fleisher Art Memorial, and outstripped her elder peers by winning a prize for her sculpture. This unprecedented achievement was followed by the Museum of Modern Art’s decision in 1955 to acquire her woodcut, Reba, produced when she was just 15, making her the youngest artist ever to be collected by the institution. Over the ensuing seven decades, her career has never slowed down. She has excelled not only as a sculptor, but as a poet and novelist, known for gilding heroic figures and recovering hidden histories.

Noeud est Denoué, Un Dieu est Libéré (Every Time a Knot is Undone, A God is Released)
Until 13 January 2025 at Musée du Louvre, Musée d’Orsay, Centre Pompidou, Musée Guimet, Musée du Quai Branly, Palais de la Porte Dorée, Palais de Tokyo and Philharmonie de Paris.