A painter, sculptor, dancer, since the early 1900s she has been postulating Cerebrism (cerebral + sensual art) with fellow theoretician Ricciotto Canudo. She was more than the pupil, model, and muse of Mucha and Rodin: she was a strong woman, one of a kind. An anti-feminist, she responded to Marinetti’s misogynous manifesto with a Manifesto of the Futurist Woman of 1912, followed by a scandalous Manifesto of Lust (1913), seen as liberating, creative energy, well before the inception of Surrealism. An incredible life, full of twists: time in Egypt, in politics, in social activism, Sufiism, and self-research.
