Before her famous shooting paintings, Niki was a collectorof the unusual, a knitter of objets trouves.The assemblagesthat she created in the second half of the 1950s testify toa smiling and occasionally cruel irony, as well as to an up-to-date personality.
Niki had a number of scores to settle with the world ofmen before she struck out and picked up a rifle. Her fetishobjects allowed her to exorcise her inner world; the artistpacifying her hidden demons.Thus, from a purely Freudiantradition, an extraordinary adventure developed whichturned Niki de Saint Phalle into a phenomenon that wentbeyond the range of art history in the twentieth century.