Berthe Lutgen has always tried to express her commitment through her art. The exhibition is governed by the oldest disciplines of the visual arts, notably drawing and painting. “Women at Work is set in an iconographic context showing copies of woodcuts, lithographs and paintings from the Middle Ages to Picasso’s Ironworker. I made most of my drawings from photographs I took at women’s workplaces. I want to honor them, put them on a pedestal to revere them.” Another theme addressed is pandemic and containment. “I try to identify the pandemic with the help of a major figure in art history, the still life. I show bouquets of flowers, fruits and vegetables in scarlet, but confined to the intimate setting of my bedroom, which is the place of refuge from nature incubating deadly viruses.”