For the first time, Monique Gies' paintings and portraits are presented in an exhibition at Galerie Christophe Gaillard in Paris. The initiative for this event came from her daughter, who discovered around a hundred of the artist's works after her death.
In 1977, at the age of forty-three, M.G. abruptly broke away from a comfortable family life to shut herself away in a maid's room in Paris. This seclusion, chosen to paint, warned her of a psychiatric institution. M.G. senses the worst to come. M.G. violently calls into question not only her family life, but also a traumatic event that has been suppressed for too long. A rape she suffered as a child at the hands of an uncle with the ominous nickname NonNon. The kindly uncle proves to be indissoluble.
