Lux Feminae | Paris Internationale

Lux Feminae

Lux Feminae (Est. 2022) is a nomadic curatorial collective with roots in New York City founded by Lily Cohen and Olivia Zabludowicz. Translating from Latin as “The Light of Woman,” Lux Feminae was established to create unique and transformative spaces shaped through the lens of the female gaze. While rooted in femininity, Lux Feminae embraces artists of all genders and backgrounds, with a focus on memory, the body, and distorted realities. Its exhibitions foreground questions of physical condition, aesthetic form and psychological expression while championing the practices of emerging artists from around the globe.

The collective embraces agility and experimentation, connecting artists to new audiences and contexts. Each project builds on a collaborative ethos, creating opportunities for dialogue across geographies and disciplines. Femininity is framed not as exclusion, but as a guiding principle, exploring delicacy with strength, dialogue with contrast and light with presence.

Since its founding, Lux Feminae has staged exhibitions in New York, London, Paris, and Mexico City, transforming industrial sites, historic residences and private members’ clubs into immersive and lived-in spaces. Each location informs the viewer’s perception of the work, reimagining traditional exhibition formats and positioning art within contexts of daily life, memory, and experience.

Lux Feminae has collaborated with and exhibited a diverse group of emerging international artists. Its exhibitions have explored themes of memory, distorted realities, and the body, bringing together practices across painting, sculpture, photography, textiles, and performance.

Lux Feminae is proud to present ‘Hold On, There’, for Paris Internationale 2025. ‘Hold On, There’, showcases new paintings by Daniele Toneatti, Italian, Paris-based mixed media artist, and photographs by Hedi Stanton, multidisciplinary artist and photographer. Both artists were previously featured in conjunction, during Vita Dopo Vita, Lux Feminae’s first Paris exhibition in February 2025.

‘Hold On, There’ explores themes of Idealization of memory: how desire and time blur the boundary between what that which we experience, and our reflections of it through time. Throughout the series, both artists’ works present cases for the instability of memory; the layering of selfhood; and the shifting boundary between perception and reality.

While Stanton’s photographs depict scenes from a dream-like dimension, using female form to examine how identity develops through stages of change, Toneatti’s works are composed democratically, through fragments of past works’ imagery, from plastiline forms and poured mediums reborn through collage. The collection serves as a time capsule, holding traces of process and memory, ‘to illustrate how individual memories, desires, and fears can lead people to perceive the same events and memories in vastly different ways.’

While rooted in femininity, Lux Feminae embraces artists of all genders and backgrounds, with a focus on memory, the body, and distorted realities. Its exhibitions foreground questions of physical condition, aesthetic form and psychological expression while championing the practices of emerging artists from around the globe.

For inquiries, contact info@luxfeminae.com