Paris Photo: Booth B35

Richard Saltoun Gallery presents a group exhibition featuring notable highlights from pioneering female artists, including Helen CHADWICK (1953–1996),  Simryn GILL (b. 1959), Emila MEDKOVÁ (1928–1985), Penny SLINGER (b. 1947), and Stella SNEAD (1910–2006).

British conceptual artist Helen Chadwick challenged artistic taboos through her experimental use of unconventional materials, creating sensuous yet unsettling works that confronted ideas of the 'traditional' or 'beautiful' in art history. Recent exhibtions include the major retrospective, 'Helen Chadwick: Life Pleasures', at The Hepworth Wakefield in West Yorkshire (2025).

Simryn Gill works across sculpture, photography, text, and experimental printmaking, drawing from her immediate surroundings to explore how historical, political, and natural forces shape human experience. Her work is found in several international collections, including the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the Centre Pompidou, the Getty Center, and the Tate Modern, amongst others.  

Czech photographer Emila Medková developed a surrealist and later informalist practice that transformed everyday urban textures, such as cracked walls, shadows, and decaying surfaces, into poetic and unsettling visual metaphors of a postwar existence.  Her work has recently been revisited in the major exhibition, 'Běla Kolářová & Emila Medková: Where No One Looked Before', at Muzeum Susch, Switzerland (2024–25), reaffirming her influence within European avant-garde photography.

Stella Snead is recognized for her surrealist paintings, photographs, and photo-collages, featuring dreamlike landscapes and fantastical creatures that explore the natural world and the subconscious. Her work is held in several institutions, such as the International Center of Photography, the New York Historical, and the V&A museum. 

Penny Slinger is known for her provocative practice spanning photography, collage, film, and sculpture. Often involving the use of her own body, Slinger explores the relationship between sexuality, mysticism, and femininity. Her work has been featured in many major exhibitions, including 'Women in Revolt!' at Tate Britain (2023–24), 'Bloom' at York Art Gallery (2023), and 'Penny Slinger: 50% Unboxed' at Pace Gallery, New York (2022).

Additional works will be on view by Marina ABRAMOVIĆ,  Eleanor ANTIN, Valie EXPORT, Shirin NESHAT, Man RAY, Jo SPENCE, and ULAY. 

Grand Palais 

3 avenue du Général Eisenhower,

Paris, 75008

France

OPENING DAY (invitation only)

Wednesday, November 12, 2025

Vernissage | 11am – 9pm 

PUBLIC DAYS

Thursday 13 November 2025 | 1pm – 8pm

Friday 14 November 2025 | 1pm – 8pm
Saturday 15 November 2025 | 1pm – 8pm

Sunday 16 November 2025 | 1pm – 7pm

For sales enquiries, please email: sales@richardsaltoun.com