This new proposition relates directly to Terracotta Daughters, her long-term project featuring an army of girls, inspired by the Xi’an terracotta warriors, which Nourry buried in 2015 at a secret site in Mainland China. The 108 sculptures, homages to young girls never born, victims of gender selection, travelled the world during 2014, from Shanghai to Mexico City via Paris, Zurich and New York. They will remain buried until 2030, the year when the gender imbalance will be at the greatest, as a result of the cultural preference for boys. Visitors to the Brussels gallery are taken on an immersive journey inside a space transformed using earth and a variety of artistic materials.

They are welcomed by the 8 terracotta daughters which originated the 108 combinations forming the army – these original sculptures will keep traveling to international institutions, messengers of Nourry’s project. Visitors will then encounter the works – bronze and terracotta sculptures, photograph, projections. They will also be invited to discover the stages in Nourry’s creative process, which have become works of art in themselves, in the form of a film, a series a molds playing with the notions of material and depth, and an installation evoking the ongoing processes behind the scenes at the studio.