“The female figure became the absolute protagonist: her forms were liberated and exaggerated. The sought-after and intentional distortion of the subject maintains the same correspondence between form and content. Certainly not intending to shock, nothing in Niki’s oeuvre is purely decorative. Quite the contrary: the manipulation took place as a response to a need within. Les Nanas are the result of Niki’s absolute need to communicate the female universe in all its forms.”