F.A.S.T. Femmes Arts Sciences Technologies is a multidisciplinary cultural project conceived by students of the Master 1 in Cultural Management of the Université libre de Bruxelles, in the framework of a micro-project of their university course. This project resulted in an exhibition for the general public, organised in the exceptional setting of the High Voltage Laboratory of the Brussels School of Engineering.

Produced by Ohme and ULB Culture, F.A.S.T. aims to highlight the hidden intellectual production of women in the arts, sciences and technologies. 

The exhibition consists of two main sections, historical and artistic, and addresses the issue of the invisibilisation of women in the history of these disciplines.

The entire F.A.S.T. project aims to create meeting points between the artistic and scientific disciplines, to highlight the academic community, to raise public awareness of gender equality and to value female intellectual production.

A Historical Perspective

The historical section includes a chronology of remarkable women in the history of the arts and sciences, as well as portraits of women who have distinguished themselves in fields such as medicine, painting, literature or physics.

These portraits are accompanied by historical commentaries that address the question of the place of women in the evolution of Western society. The exhibition also looks at the mechanisms of invisibilisation of women in the history of visual arts and scientific research, as well as at Artscience, an emerging creative field.

Contemporary works

In parallel, works and installations by emerging female contemporary artists based in the Brussels-Capital Region who integrate science and technology into their creative processes are presented. The artistic programme consists of Laura Colmenares Guerra, Nazanin Fakoor, Federica Fantini, Ophélie Lhuire and Claire Williams.

Each of them explores different scientific topics or uses technology in their practice to create unique visual and interactive art experiences.