"I was fortunate enough to meet art because I had, on a psychological level, all it takes to become a terrorist. Instead, I used the rifle for the good cause, that of art."
Visual artist, painter, sculptor, and film director, Niki de Saint Phalle is a Franco-American artist. Her dual nationality has multiplied the influences on her, between neo-Dadaism and new realism. Self-taught, Niki de Saint Phalle places her life and her personal ideas at the heart of her art, delivering a committed and feminist work. Her paintings and then her sculptures, like her brides and her prostitutes, made of assemblages, hold a feminist discourse. Her creation is marked by a need that becomes more violent with her practice of shooting, it integrates the new realism and holds a more political discourse. Once the mourning is over, soulless brides turn into chicks, powerful, beautiful, and generous women who herald a new harmony in the artist's life.