This month, I invite you to explore the figure of Penelope and its many facets, through a performance in Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer with Naos and HF+ Normandie, as part of the Journées du Matrimoine (heritage viewed from women’s perspectives), and a two-person exhibition in Thaon with Annie Lenoir, supported by the Métamorphoses association. Affiche pour Le tissage du destin à Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer. Penelope, The Weaving of Fate What if Odysseus were there? What if she were mad? Alone

Penelope is often reduced to a single image: that of the woman waiting for her husband, who has gone off to war. In Homer’s Odyssey, Odysseus has been absent for nearly twenty years. While he travels, fights, and struggles to return to Ithaca, Penelope remains in the palace with their son Telemachus. Numerous suitors, convinced that Odysseus is dead, seek to marry her. To resist them, Penelope — who is every bit as cunning as Odysseus — devises a trick. She announces that she