Pooya Abbasian is an Iranian artist based in Paris since 2011. His practice unfolds through photography, video, drawing and installation. He aspires to make these processes visible but also to construct his own visual fictions through images he finds online on news sites and his own shots or recordings. Ambiguities and transitional states interest Pooya Abbasian more than assertions.

Arnaud Adami was born in 1995 in Lannion. He lives and works in Paris. He graduated from the Ecole Nationale d’Art of Bourges (ENSA) in 2019 and is currently studying at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts of Paris (ENSBA), in Nina Childress’ workshop.
Arnaud has participated in several group exhibitions across France, including Manifesta in Lyon or the H Gallery in Paris. He was one of the finalists of the Prix Carré sur Seine and was part of the exhibition of the Prix Novembre à Vitry in 2020. He was also selected by Hervé Mikaeloff to participate in the focus on the Art Paris Fair 2021.

Carla Adra (born in 1993 in Toronto) studied arts and anthropology in France, Canada and Mexico and is graduated from École d'Art et de Design de Reims in 2017. Through the performative form, Carla Adra reinvents ways of being together
and modes of transmission. Interested in psychoanalysis and alternative pedagogies, she proposes spaces-time for meeting and sharing: conversations, duels and collaborative workshops are organized according to precise protocols. In parallel, she develops an intimate sculptural practice that connects inner discourse and subterranean forms.

Caroline Ailleret (born in 1994 in Équemauville, Calvados) lives in Pantin and works in Aubervilliers. A performance and visual artist trained at the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris (DNSAP, 2024), she develops a research-based practice focused on trace and the scope of gesture, through forms combining performance, video, photography, and installation.
Through minimal dispositifs, her work questions the sensitive and ambiguous relationships between body, space, and time. Often elusive in their entirety, her pieces challenge exhibition frameworks and open attention toward elsewhere.

Mathilde Albouy is a French artist born in 1997. With references to feminist science fiction and the hybridization of various narratives, Mathilde Albouy's work combines sculpture and installation. A ritual dimension animates all her works: religious ritual, playfulness or care, giving them a "disquieting strangeness". She hijacks objects and materials, testing them with simple gestures to create assemblages of organic and manufactured materials. Graduating from HEAR (Strasbourg) in 2020, then from École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (Paris) in 2022, she has presented her work at Villa Empain (Brussels, 2023), FORMA (Paris, 2023) and Galerie Derouillon (Paris, 2023). In 2023, Mathilde was nominated for the 10th edition of the Bourse Révélations Emerige.

Nils Alix-Tabeling (b. 1991, Paris, France) lives and works in Paris, France. Recent solo exhibitions include after Judea Sill, 4 songs for 1 catabasis, Olivier Debré Contemporary Creation Center, Tours (2025); But Who Is Ulrike Mandrake?, curated by Rebekka Seubert, Dortmunder Kunstverein, Dortmund (2023); FLEUR DE PEAU, TERRE À VIF, Centre d’art contemporain du Parvis, Parvis (2023); Split #2, Piktogram, Warsaw (2022); and Maison Catabase, Public Gallery, London (2022). He has participated group exhibitions at FRAC Corsica, Corte; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Mecenes du Sud, Montpellier; MOCO la Panacée, Montpellier; La Maison Populaire, Montreuil; Centre for contemporary art (CAC), Brétigny; and Kraupa Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin. He was awarded the PÉBÉO prize at Art-o-rama (2023) and the Friends of Liste award (2021). Permanent collections include FRAC Occitanie Montpellier, Montpellier, France; FRAC Ile-de-France, Paris, France; Servais Family Collection, Brussels, Belgium; PÉBÉO Collection, Marseille, France; Frédéric de Goldschmidt Collection, Brussels, Belgium; and The Fonds d'art contemporain, Paris, France.

Estèla Alliaud was born in 1986. Her work is based on subtraction and has a sculptural dimension that deals with the intrinsic value of materials and their physicality. The processes she operates are essentially articulated around the intuitive observation of a place and its experience. The forms she places in space, mainly sculptures and installations, are created through simple but fundamental actions. Her works structure an architecture of thought that leads the individual to the seizure of a mental space.

Kenia Almaraz Murillo (born in 1994 in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia) graduated from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2020 with the jury’s congratulations. Through weaving, sculpture, and frescoes, Kenia relays her fascination for the geometric shapes and the symbols of Andean textiles. In rhythmic compositions, she pays tribute to the colored vibrations that she observes in nature. The use of light and of automobile headlamps allows her to give a symbolic and innovative dimension to traditional weaving.

Clémence Althabegoïty is a Paris-based designer and visual artist. Her practice occupies a hybrid space between design, art and science. Working in collaboration with scientific institutions, she explores silence, water and air, and the ways in which they interact with matter. Drawing on contextual analysis and material research, she conceives objects, installations and scenographies. In 2024, she was awarded the Prix Liliane Bettencourt pour l'Intelligence de la Main®. In 2027, she will be in residence at Villa Albertine in Los Angeles.

Sarah Ancelle Schoenfeld investigates forms of knowledge production that shape, control, and reproduce reality. Convinced that the Western liberal worldview is not sufficient to address the growing global mess, she creates mysterious laboratories where solutions, healing, and meaning are jestingly reimagined. Her labs materialize through installations, experimental photography, sculptures, and instruments. Her works have been shown at Kunsthalle Mainz, Casino Luxembourg and Fotomuseum Winterthur among others.

Alice Anderson (born in 1972, France) has been performing individually and collectively, dancing with objects and spaces for about fifteen years. From these intuitive "Technological Dances," immense paintings and sculptures emerge: memorials of objects and places from our Anthropocene era.
The performer poetically reactivates the strong connection between the human and the non-human by initiating her performances with observation sessions of technological objects. Anderson doesn't paint with a brush but directly with an object coated in paint. These computers, drones, batteries, virtual reality masks (etc.) will then take hold of the artist, leading her into a dance rhythmized by hyperventilated breaths that guide her into a trance, into another dimension of the environment and matter.

Born in 1995, Marion Artense Gély lives and works in Paris. She graduated from ENSAPC in 2020, and has been in residence at POUSH since 2021. Her work explores the tensions between the infinitely small and the immensely cosmic, blending painting and sculpture in a quest for buried memory. Using glazing and sfumato techniques, she reveals narratives in which the elements embody a sensitive presence, both luminous and spectral. Force, Energy and Emergence structure her work, particularly in ceramics. The recipient of residencies in Greece (Naxos, 2022) and China (Jingdezhen), she has exhibited in Paris (Galeries Myriam Chair, May, Dumonteil, Dauphine), Rome (Orient-Express La Minerva) and was a finalist in the Darmo Art Prize 2024. In 2025, she will present a duo exhibition with Denis Macrez at the Chapelle XIV gallery.

Gilad Ashery (b. Jerusalem 1993) is an emerging artist living and working between Paris, and Jerusalem. Ashery studied Fine Arts at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design (Jerusalem), graduating in 2022 and completed postgraduate studies at the Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2024. He received the Ilana Elovic prize 2025, AICF scholarship 2024, Institute Francais scholarship 2023. His works are part of the European Investment Bank’s collection.

Tina Atami (born in 1989 in Tbilisi) is a multidisciplinary artist who specializes in various mediums, including painting, sculpting, video, and performative art. Her recent works explore themes of rebirth and transformation, using recycled materials. Emotions like shame and fear are central, showcasing their strength within the female body as she seeks the divine in humanity.

Since 2017, Jaïna Ennequin and Baptiste Sévin form Atelier Baptiste & Jaïna. The duo imagine projects driven by natural and theatrical references. These references are activators of stories involving reality and imagination. The different possibilities offered by the material and especially by ceramics, allow the duo to explore the dialogue between form, texture and light. The objects and spaces become a support to the evocation of stories tinted of magic realism.

The work of Aleksandr Avagyan (born in 1990, in Yerevan, ex-USSR of Armenia), if it feeds of course on all the formalist inheritance of the painting called abstract, it refuses the sublime, ideal and deterritorialized character of it, by a questioning of the political nature and thus fragile, fragile because political, of the given perimeter inside which the art is possible.

Ece Bal (born in 1992 in Turkey), after completing the first year of her Master’s at Central Saint Martins, graduated from the Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2022 with honors.Her work focuses on creating multisensory experiences that explore relationships of scale and engage with cycles of materials and their transformations. Her practice is rooted in process-based explorations of natural materials. She recontextualizes traditional techniques such as ebru, glass, and plant-based dyeing through a contemporary and experimental lens, often incorporating elements such as olfaction and video.

Starting from a designer's position, Thomas Ballouhey (born in 1990) experiments in his work with materials and techniques that go against the grain of what we expect from traditional craftsmanship or industry by appropriating hobbyist and vernacular techniques. These materials and techniques are found in objects that seem to have come out of sets or that could be relics of another civilization sharing strange common points with ours.

Sosthène Baran is a French artist born in 1990, living and working in Paris. His work combines painting, found objects, and sculpture on reclaimed or constructed supports. Through landscapes, figures, and assemblages, he develops a luminous and uncanny universe nourished by science fiction, the sacred, and apparitions, exploring memory, belief, and human traces.

Anaïs Barras is a French artist living and working in Paris, and a resident artist at POUSH. A graduate of the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris and holder of a Research & Creation Master’s degree from Université Paris 8, she co-founded the company CREME SOLEIL in 2020. Her transdisciplinary practice combines dance, performance, video, and publishing, exploring the connections between ecology, the body, and new technologies. Her work is exhibited both in France and internationally.

Fanny Béguély (born in 1990) is a visual artist and filmmaker, a graduate of Le Fresnoy - Studio national des arts contemporains. In her work, she deconstructs the Western dualistic heritage, which has drawn a sterile line between the visible and the invisible, the flesh and the spirit, the human and the other than human. Navigating in the register of fiction as in that of documentary, his films make mythical times and contemporaneity collide.
His photographic approach is done without a camera, working with the photosensitive material as a living medium in an attempt to capture the elemental and metamorphic forces of life.

Sami Benhadj Djilali (born in 1977 in Algiers) graduated from the ECAL in 2003 with a master's degree in Visual Arts. His work revolves around a reflection on the framework of the painting. Used for sculptural purposes, the materials of choice of the painter interact in his works with heterogeneous elements. By subjecting them to various tensions, he seeks a point of limit, on the edge of the rupture. He thus develops an ambivalent practice, carried by the contradictory desire to orchestrate the accident.

Amélie Bernard (born in 1990 in Paris) is a multidisciplinary artist. She lived in Beirut for two years, during which she was able to define her artistic practice, exploring abandoned contemporary space as a timeless vehicle for memory and heritage. Her artistic techniques vary according to the subject matter. The materials that she uses and the way she assembles them are inspired by the dispositives of construction and destruction of urban space, which allows her to play on the timelessness of what she represents.

Born in 2000 in Paris, Zoé Bernardi is a visual artist and filmmaker. From 2019 to 2024, she studied at the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris in the studios of Clément Cogitore and Agnès Geoffroy, graduating with highest honors in June 2024. Alternating between still and moving images, Zoé Bernardi seeks to reveal the power of singularity and questions the construction of normality and marginality, using intimacy as a site of experimentation.
She has exhibited her works and screened her films at the Palais de Tokyo, the Musée du Louvre, the Centre Culturel Jean Cocteau, Photo Saint-Germain, the Fondation Ricard, Hôtel La Louisine, Galerie des Filles du Calvaire, and the KW Institute for Contemporary Art, among others. She received the Sisley Grant 2025 and was the jury’s special mention for emerging creation at the BAL/ADAGP Prize. She will have her first solo exhibition at Galerie Kamel Mennour in June 2026 and will publish her work.

Raphaëlle Bertran (born in 1992 in Paris) graduated with a Master’s degree in Philosophy of Art from Paris IV in 2015 and a DNSAP from Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2020.
Raphaëlle Bertran Pinheiro deploys her technique on large formats. Her pictorial universe is rich in references to philosophy (Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Maurice Blanchot, Heidegger...), literature (Georges Bataille, Fondane...) and art history. Her compositions appear as a compendium of human history, a universe where absurdity, terror and the force of life come together as a highly topical reflection of the world, a topicality restored from the material of the past.

Luca Beux-Prere is the singer, songwriter, and composer behind Voxish Creek, a radical and deeply personal music project. The project is rooted in an instinctive expression where tension and chaos play a central role. Voxish Creek asserts music as a free artistic practice rather than a commercial product, embracing a deliberate and self-claimed sense of dissonance encapsulated in its motto: Cheating With Knowledge.
Luca also develops visual and sound installations/performances in collaboration with other artists.

Yacob Bizuneh (born 1983 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia) graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts with distinction from the Allé School of Fine Arts and Design, where he later taught.
He produces and designs his artworks using different media such as found objects, performance and video installation and relates them to everyday life in a different context. Since his first personal works, Yacob has continuously explored the social, economic and political context and their consequences on human well-being in the countries he has visited.

Like exercises in genealogy, Sofía Bonilla Otoya researches and imagines why objects, colors, and forms became what they are. Working across sculpture, installation, painted fabrics, and video, her materials are approached as dialectical spaces of inheritance and indeterminacy. In that process, what emerges is a field of possibility structured by the “could have been” and the “could be,” where gestures function as provisional configurations.

Born and raised in Cali, Colombia, Sofía holds an MA in philosophy of art and aesthetics from Université Paris-Sorbonne and an MFA from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris. She presented her first solo exhibition at N.A.S.A.L. gallery in Mexico City in 2025. Group exhibitions include Le Magasin in Grenoble, Borjesson Perrotti in Paris, Sissi Club in Marseille, ACME art fair in Mexico and The Salon by NADA and The Community in Paris.

Capucine Bonneterre is an artist who graduated from ENSAD Paris. Working mainly with textiles, she has developed a particular interest in the reverse side of fabrics. Her work focuses on the transformation and partial disappearance of images from the top to the bottom of the weave. She plays with the way in which technique appears at the expense of image clarity and, conversely, with the way in which the image is defined as the technique becomes more discreet. Inviting an ecology of the gaze and reconnection, each textile piece is created as a liminal surface where another frequency of reality appears.
After experience in the fashion industry, then alongside Sheila Hicks, Capucine was the winner of an open call organized by the Cité internationale de la tapisserie. She also joined the Hermès Foundation's Academy on textiles.

François Bonnot (born in Choisi le Roi in 1991) lives and works in Paris. He is interested in creating parallel universes, extrapolating them from the scenarios he writes. These stories, which often emerge from trivial details of reality, become tangible through the creation or alteration of objects. He invites us to refuse the banal by exaggerating it. He is interested in ancient methods of fabrication and in particular in the potter's wheel technique, which he puts at the service of the Bureau Idéal project, a duo formed with Giada Ganassin. Bureau Idéal creates objects that tell stories and open up the everyday to reverie and contemplation. The relationship between form and setting is central and one relies on the other to exist: stories unfold on the surface of the objects and revolve around them - without beginning or end.

Julia Borderie and Eloïse le Gallo (born in 1989) put the idea of the encounter at the heart of their approach. Their creative process is anchored in a poetic documentary method. Forms emerge from their interactions with the persons that they meet in specific contexts. Meaning is constructed in the plasticity of the works, like a sensitive memory of human encounters. This research project takes various forms (exhibitions, films, performances, radio programs), including multiple collaborations.

Lucas Bouan Tsobgny (born in 1996 in Paris) graduated from the Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2021. As a multidisciplinary artist, he attended several workshops, notably Emmanuelle Huynh's dance workshop. His work will take a decisive turn when he will integrate his body to the materials he creates. Sculptor and performer, he creates contemporary rites where he metamorphoses to establish bridges between multiple identities.

Léonard Bourgois Beaulieu is a visual artist whose work has long explored the notion of plural identities. Faces, bodies, time and nature, memory and painting form the core of his explorations, which he approaches through chemical and optical processes to create a pictorial body of work with strong materiality. His practice investigates the material and conceptual possibilities of photographic imagery, combining experimental analog techniques, modified digital devices, and transformations of various supports. Through these methods, he seeks to provoke accidents and disruptions that reflect a constantly shifting reality, emphasizing the fluid and unfixed nature of the people he portrays. Léonard Bourgois Beaulieu collaborates with both French and international galleries and regularly takes part in international art fairs such as Art Basel, Paris Photo, and Kyotographie. He has also been shortlisted and nominated for numerous awards and open calls, including Picto Lab, Camera Clara, Kyotographie, and Adiaf Emergence.pages.

Kamil Bouzoubaa-Grivel (born in 1992) is a French-Moroccan artist who lives and works in Paris. He has participated in group exhibitions at the Pernod-Ricard Foundation, Bétonsalon - Centre de recherche (Paris), Panacée - MOCO (Montpellier), Fondation Fiminco (Romainville) and Komplot (Brussels). He has done residencies at the Cité Internationale des Arts and at the Villa Belleville (Paris). His next major group exhibition will take place at the Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles (Paris) in September 2023.

Born in 1994 in Paris, where he lives and works, Simon Brossard has developed a visual art practice centred on ghostly figures and mythological narratives. Through casting and paper, he explores imprints, memory and invisible presences. Drawing inspiration from science fiction and pop culture icons, his work creates a dialogue between ancient and contemporary imaginations within a fragile, spectral and narrative aesthetic.

Zoé Brunet-Jailly (born in 1991, France) uses oil painting and computer-generated imagery, often in the manner of a portraitist, to capture the complexity of memory and algorithmic creation. Her artworks are also influenced by various atmospheres found on the internet, between popular culture and ancient myths. Her avatar, Ellie Hedden (introduced in 2014), enables her to create "Hyperdreams," reconstructed worlds populated by invented faces. Her artworks have been exhibited at the Refraction Festival during the Miami Art Week and at the Jeune Création 69 art fair.

Cécile Burban is a French artist photographer. Guided by an intuitive approach, her work is a poetic investigation of physical and psychological landscapes.
She seeks to depict the imperceptible in the links we weave with our environment, and questions the variations there: mutation and renewal, mixing intimate experience with collective narrative.

A graduate of the HEAR and the Beaux Arts de Paris, Io Burgard draws form from drawing, embodies the idea in sculpture. Io Burgard's work has been seen at Mo.Co (curator Vincent Honoré), at the FRAC Ile-de-France, at the CAC Chanot (curator Roven), at the Galleria Continua (curator Nicolas Bourriaud), at the Palais de Tokyo (curator Gael Charbeau), and abroad in Japan (Forum Hermès), in Seoul (Maison Hermès) and in Germany (She BAM). Monographic exhibitions have been offered to her, notably at the MRAC Serignan by Sandra Patron, at the Capucins in Embrun by Solenn Morel, at the CAC in Ugine by Stephane Sauzede, and in the galleries Maïa Muller (Paris) and SheBam (Leipzig). She will soon participate in the Triennale de Dunkerque under the curatorship of Anna Collin and Camille Richert. Present in the collections of FRAC PACA, CNAP, MRAC Sérignan, Fonds de dotation Hermès.

Garance Butler-Oliva is interested in slowness, proposing forms whose experience unfolds in opposition to contemporary temporal acceleration. In a society saturated by a constant visual flow, she seeks to produce a slow image that reveals itself only through the viewer’s dedication. Her research notably explores Hasbara — the communication strategy of the Israeli state. Coming from a Franco-Israeli Jewish family, she attempts to express a decolonial Jewish voice.

Valentina Canseco (1985) is of Brazilian and Chilean origin, and holds degrees in plastic arts from various institutions in France, Belgium and Colombia. She explores a singular relationship to the landscape through light, color and scale variations and composes metonymies as prisms of the visible, capable of recreating sensitive impressions of the outside world. In her work in volumes, she questions our relationship to architecture and to the living. In painting, her pictures, punctuated by the musicality she perceives in the colors, create scores of the invisible.

Loucia Carlier (born in 1992) is a French artist based in Paris. Working between sculpture and painting, she creates object-paintings and micro-architectures in which body fragments, artificial caves, domestic interiors, and lighting devices are interwoven. Through miniaturization, she condenses fictional worlds where social norms, power relations, and intimate imaginaries are replayed. Her works transform the ordinary into unstable landscapes, oscillating between reverie, alienation, and projection. Since 2018, she has co-directed the independent journal Klima and was a recipient of the Révélation Émerige award.

Hector Castells Matutano's work is built on a kind of visual ecology based on the collection of images he produces or finds. He works with these images to produce the beginnings of narratives and visual experiences, changing them through collage, text, installation and colorization. He thus seeks to combine, without corrupting them, the issues of abstraction (lines, colors, shapes and lights) and the documentary type image (archives, found images, photographic diary). This research is for him the means to question the otherness, to think the articulation of the difference. It allows him to reconsider the question of the collective and the relationship to the other, within real or perceptive spaces.

Elliott Causse (born in 1992 in Paris) graduated from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2017. He works on the theme of the city, exploring all its different forms of networks, cartographies and transportation flows (plumbing, electricity, public transportation).
As a video artist, he creates immersive installations and frescoes in situ, as well as experimental short films inspired by the urban environment.

Alex Cecchetti’s work unfolds at the intersection of poetry, performance, visual arts, and ecological practices. His work takes the form of sensory and immersive installations. Natural dyeing, poetry, music, films, and incantations create spaces of passage and transformation in which the bodies and attention of the audience become an integral part of a living ecosystem. Cecchetti’s works are often created in collaboration with other forms of intelligence, such as forests or oceans, and unfold beyond traditional exhibition spaces, such as in gardens, seascapes, or immersive contexts. The philosopher Emanuele Coccia has described his work as an “aesthetic and ecological revolution,” in which each species becomes an artist and each ecosystem a living Kunsthalle. Nourished by research into vernacular knowledge, botany, and mythologies, his practice explores the relationships between humans and nonhumans, as well as the links between ecology, desire, spirituality, and forms of community. Cecchetti’s work invites the audience to experience the vertigo of unity with other forms of life and intelligence as a transformative experience, while also insisting on its urgency: imagining ourselves as separate from other species and ecosystems is not an abstraction, but a condition that produces real ecological and political crises. His work has notably been presented at the Centre Pompidou, the Serpentine Galleries, MAXXI Rome, and IMMA Dublin.

Born in 1988, a graduate of ESARM, Angélique de Chabot assembles organic materials and integrates ceramics into her work. Her themes are animals and the sacred. In 2018, her exhibition Surgissant du Nadir at Malromé Castle, features a monumental goddess beast. Recently, his giant and mystical masks feed his bestiary for his project Meute, in procession in the public space for the Aix-en-Provence Biennial, during Art-O-rama in Marseille and in resonance with the Lyon Biennale.

The work of Taisiia Cherkasova (born in 1991 in Dnipro, Ukraine) is mainly in the form of paintings, bringing together oil, pastel and acrylic ink. More and more, the frames are disappearing for sculptural formats which increase the pigments on new dimensions. The subjects she evokes come from both her personal experience and her fascination for the forms of duality present in human beings. Metamorphosis, a major theme for her, allows her to construct strange characters and scenes which bring us back to our own human condition with finesse.

Artist and designer, graduated from the Boulle school in 2017, Pia Chevalier leaves room for total spontaneity in her creative process and the composition of her pieces. Her love for raw materials encourages her to constantly transform them in order to create unique pieces. Focused on everyday objects, her obsession is to give solemnity to these objects in order to make them endearing. She thus gives birth to disproportionate, funny sculptures, often inspired by the culinary universe.

Boris Chouvellon (born in 1980 in Saint-Étienne) graduated from Villa Arson in Nice, and later from the École des Beaux-Arts de Marseille. He explores urban space and its periphery. His work questions modernity by carrying out poetic constructive experimentations in the traces of its ruins.

Diane Chéry (born in 1993 in Suresnes) is a visual artist, painter and choreographer.
She graduated from the Ecole Estienne, the Arts Décoratifs de Strasbourg and the Beaux-Arts de Paris, with the Congratulations of the jury in 2020. She trained in Emmanuelle Huynh's performance workshop and with dancers from Alwin Nikolais' company. An exchange at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago allowed her to develop the practice of weaving and the creation of costumes. Her work opens up a plural space and offers a visual experience of colour in movement.

Jérôme Cortie (b. 1992, Aubervilliers). His research unfolds along a continuum in which past, present and future intermingle, and in which the virtual and the physical hybridise into installations, videos or video games. Questions of interactivity and shared experience lie at the heart of his practice, with the aim of granting viewers genuine agency.

Anne Corté creates shows as if she were preparing surprises.
She starts the performance with baroque and sportive sociological collages. This is followed by a score of passers-by, a vertical chain reaction of rope workers, a duet with a live turkey, a hundred versions of a jackass poetess, a ghost ball.
She has been performing "Autokèn - autotune tragedy" since 2019 and is preparing a new chemistry piece, scheduled to premiere in 2023.

Julie Coulon is a French artist born in 1997. Through performance and monumental installations, she explores the ways in which cinema shapes the contemporary condition. After studying at the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris and the School of Visual Arts in New York, her installations oscillate between documentary and fiction. Both figurative and conceptual, her practice spans photography, film, performance, and curating.

Max Coulon was born in 1994 in Strasbourg and lives in Paris. He works in the workshops of Poush in Aubervilliers. He is represented by the Romero Paprocki Gallery in France and by the Nosbaum Reding Gallery in Luxembourg and Belgium. He graduated from the Beaux Arts de Paris in 2021, after spending three years in Stephan Balkenhol's studio at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Karlsruhe.

Paul Créange (born in 1987) graduated from the Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2015. He developed a multifaceted artistic practice, blending photography and sculpture, the former being the essential and structuring element of his tridimensional works. His works subtly explore the questions of space, light, and frame, while defying the distinctions between abstraction and figuration, or inside and outside. Rigorously and poetically, he manages to represent, through the still image, time and its ineffable multiplicity.

Nicolas Crichton (born in 1989) studied at Les Gobelins and then at the Beaux-Arts de Paris. A resident at POUSH since March 2025, he paints a world where the everyday becomes strange. His work explores the in-between, both in its subjects and in his practice, moving from scrawled drawings to large-format paintings. He blends real objects with personal inventions. His familiar forms are slightly distorted, his laughs a little unsettling. Crichton reveals what disturbs us in what reassures us, exploring the troubled poetry of our daily habits.

Clara Darrason (b. 1988, Paris) is a Franco-American curator and entrepreneur. Since 2024, she has been running her own company specializing in curation, studio and estate management, as well as advisory services. Previously, she founded and co-directed THE CHIMNEY (2015-2020), a gallery in Brooklyn NY where she developed a program focusing on commissioned installations, revitalizing non- traditional, historical, and industrial buildings. She collaborated with over 70 artists to create 31 exhibitions and 3 festivals. Her exhibitions were reviewed in The New York Times, Artforum, The Art Newspaper, New York Magazine among others and artists she worked with went on to exhibit in renowned institutions such as Le Centre Pompidou, le Palais de Tokyo, The Hammer Museum to name a few. She worked for seven years (2016-2024) for Almine Rech gallery, her last position as global manager of operations. Clara currently works with James Brown Estate and recently curated exhibition at POUSH, Selebe Yoon, (Dakar, Senegal), Jousse Entreprise Gallery (Paris).

Petr Davydtchenko was born in Arzamas-16, a closed military town in Russia, in 1986. After completing his BA at Konstfack in Sweden, he moved to London to study sculpture at the Royal College of Art. He subsequently developed his artistic practice across Europe. In the post-industrial village of Maubourguet in southwest France, he survived exclusively on roadkill for three years. His work explores systems of power, survival and value through long-durational projects that frequently position the body as material.

Marlon de Azambuja (born in 1978 in Porto Alegre, Brazil) is a multidisciplinary artist. His work often focuses on questions related to the city, architecture and our bodies’ perception of our environments, whether they are physical, political or cultural.

Artist, sentimentalist painter and animal ceramist, founder of the modeling agency Mannequin Madelaine, the work of Cyril Debon (born in 1987 in Bruges) is an exercise in eclecticism, in search of the best ways to evoke universal emotions such as love, or melancholy. He elaborates his own imagery of Epinal where art history, children's books and B-movie archetypes are reconciled. His production crosses the register of artistic genres like a pawn on a goose game board.

Anna de Castro Barbosa (b. 1995, Montpellier) graduated from the Sorbonne in 2018, the Beaux-Arts de Nantes in 2021 and the Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2024. In the same year, she won the Bredin-Prat scholarship and the Diptyque scholarship, and exhibited at Crush and the Prix Dauphine. Her work is about telling stories, seeking out and provoking relationships through disquiet and strangeness, involving relationships of seduction, attraction and repulsion, turning sculptures, montages and systems into spaces of gesture. The result is an uneasy coexistence, a series of attempts at strategies and tinkering to understand where the encounter lies, how to make contact possible, and what the reaction should be: allergy, disgust, eroticism, affection.

Bryce Delplanque's (b. 1993) work does not come with a set of instructions. There are no rules for viewing his paintings, they come from intuition. These images have a strong connection to nostalgia as an incessant surge that becomes the driving force behind painting. His paintings of postcards, newspaper clippings and found photo memories are linked to a form of nostalgia, standing for privation, not regret. In substance, Bryce Delplanque's work questions the physicality of the media and motifs used, the relationship between text and image, and the potential of technical images in the apprehension of representation.

Lucas de Montalembert holds degrees from ESAD de Reims and the Sandberg Instituut (Gerrit Rietveld Academie) in Amsterdam. Through painting, installation, and video, his practice explores how forms of restraint, as well as the conditions and variables embedded within built environments, shape perception, relationships, and collective memory. His artist residencies notably include: Ca’Buccari (Venice, 2024); Fondazione Antonio Ratti (Como, 2024); and SOMA Summer (Mexico City, 2026).

For Antonin Detemple (born in 1990 in Strasbourg), the choice is made not to modify the state of things too much, but simply to reproduce them, to transport them from their native context into another. In the multiple forms that his work takes - sculptures, installations, still or animated images, editions - the logic is that moving a subject is already making it evolve. A tinkerer of fantasy, he sees in every form the evidence of a historical movement and perceives in it correlations to be dismantled.

Aliou Diack, born in 1987 in Senegal, is an artist living and working in Dakar. Trained at the École Nationale des Arts in Dakar, he develops a painting practice deeply rooted in nature and the animal world, inspired by the landscapes of his childhood. Through layered compositions combining plant-based pigments, fields of color, and assertive lines, he creates universes in which animal and vegetal forms emerge, camouflage themselves, or dissolve.
His practice explores notions of transformation, exchange, and circulation “to give and to receive” conceiving painting as a space for sharing and transmission. Since 2014, he has participated in numerous international exhibitions and residencies across Europe and Africa.

Emmanuelle Ducrocq (born in Morocco in 1969) arrived in Paris at the age of 17. She successively studied drawing, theater at Paris VIII and then landscape at the École Nationale Supérieure du Paysage de Versailles. A common denominator imposes itself and becomes the main subject of her research as a visual artist: space and by extension what links us to places. Her career oscillates between the realization of in situ creations in residence in France and abroad and a research in the studio where introspection questions her obsessions: the vertical and the horizontal, the opening and the closing, the repetition and the piling up, through symbolic elements such as the wall, the door, the circle and the chair as well as the objects she stages. In 2019, she graduated from the École Nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Paris.

Rudy Dumas (born in 1993) is a visual artist and circus performer from the Traveller community. His childhood, spent on the road following his family’s circus, deeply shaped his relationship to space and material. His artistic territory draws from marginal landscapes and abandoned objects, parking lots, embankments, car wrecks, cracked walls, which become the materials for a reflection on memory, persecution, and marginality. Through sculptures in concrete, asphalt, and bronze, he questions the weight of remnants and their symbolic potential. His works take the form of concrete columns inlaid with bronze nuggets, telephone booths embedded in cinderblock walls, or asphalt blocks pierced with nails recalling those of the Crucifixion. In a performative video, he tattoos the word Zigeuner, a derogatory term used for Sinti and Roma people persecuted during the Second World War, across his knuckles, inscribing his body within a collective and political memory. His work is conceived as a way of “pushing the center toward the periphery.” His research has been presented in recognized institutions and contexts, including the Art Press Biennial at MAMC Saint-Étienne in 2021 and the exhibition Les Rois Morts at Galerie Suzanne Tarasiève in 2025. His work has been featured in Libération, Le Monde, and ArtPress, which have highlighted the significance of his practice in current debates surrounding the reparation of Romani memory and identity.

François Durel’s work examines how architectural fragments and everyday mechanisms retain traces of secrecy, desire, and discipline. By reorienting the spatial logic of objects, he reveals the subtle pressures and prohibitions embedded in the ordinary. Moving along the edges of the symbolic and the institutional, Durel constructs a distilled lexicon of withheld access, muted authority, and destabilized intimacy.

Pieter Eliëns, born 1989 The Netherlands, creates sculptural installations in which material such as metal, fabric, and plaster are combined with found objects and photographic images. The artist describes his works as “temporary monuments” to universal notions of fragility, care, support, and loss. He is interested in how monuments and human action can commemorate and how emotion is stored into matter. His works pay attention to objects and places that are usually overlooked or neglected, and explore the emotional charge carried by certain materials. The aspect of gesture, of ‘hand-made’ quality is important in his work. Many of his sculptural works deal with the notion of order and chaos and tension and suspens. He is interested in these as for him they hold powerfull metaphors that are closely linked to human behaviour.

Morgane Ely was born in 1995 in Hayange, Lorraine. She graduated from Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2021, where she was introduced to silkscreen printing. During her studies, she spent 6 months at Tokyo's Musashino Art University, where she was trained in printmaking and woodcutting by masters Akira Suzuki and Tsuyoshi Hirai. She is the winner of the Prix du Prestige Takifuji (2021), the Prix Rose Taupin - Dora Bianka (2022) and the Prix Villa Noailles aux Révélations Emerige (2023).

Emergency is a curatorial group and an independent exhibition space that opened in Paris in 2025. It was founded by artists and curators Ivan Volkov, Misha Gudwin, and Iuliia Skromnaya. We organize group and solo exhibitions and support emerging artists. Our focus is on experimental and contemporary art within an international context. Our first space was located in a historic building near Hôtel de Ville. In 1849, the first emergency medical service in Paris, Assistance Publique, was established there to respond to urgent calls
from citizens. The name Emergency reflects our sense of urgency and energy, the same spirit we bring to presenting new and experimental art. In January 2026, the gallery relocated to its new home at POUSH, an art center situated in the Parc des Portes de Paris in Aubervilliers."

Andrew Erdos (b. 1985) is an artist based in Paris. His practice often combines traditional glass-blowing and glass-sculpting techniques with digital media and mixed media sculpture. His work has been exhibited worldwide, including at Mobilier national Paris, Hôtel des Arts, Toulon; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City MO; Orlando Art Museum, Orlando, FL), Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, OK; Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY; State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg; Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ; Nerman Museum, Overland Park, KS; National Center for Contemporary, Art Moscou; and Palais-Royal, Paris.
Andrew Erdos is the founder of POUSH Hot Glass, Île-de-France's first public-access glass studio, that opened in April 2025.

"Cinema is deeply ingrained in Clément Étienne’s practice. More than the narratives he creates, the artist is interested in cinema’s materiality: light, sets, space and the processes that give rise to the image.

His work draws on science fiction narratives, not to illustrate their fictional worlds, but to explore the transformations taking place in our environment. Deserted hotels, abandoned theatres, stark architectural structures and landscapes ravaged by the elements form spaces where nature seems to be reclaiming these places."

Excerpt from the introductory text by Steven Vandeporta.

Alma Feldhandler was born in 1996 in Trappes, France. She lives and works in Paris. Her recent exhibitions include The Latest Thing (2026) at Meyer Riegger Wolff, Seoul; There Is a Crack in Everything (2025) at the Jewish Museum of Belgium; Who’s the Captain of All These Boys of Death? (2024) at Meyer Riegger, Berlin.
She graduated with a BA from the LCC, University of the Arts London (2017) and post-graduated with a DNSEP from the ENSAPC, Paris (2021)

In her work, Adélaïde Feriot (born in 1985 in Libourne) experiments with the introduction of living organisms in the space and time of the exhibition. She sees herself as a “tuner of living machines”, keeping in mind the troubling idea of the automaton, between the animate and the inanimate. Materials, their origins, their properties, their symbols, are at the heart of her practice. She seeks to give shape to the transfers of energy that take place between them in the workshop, and later when they are joined by our vibrating bodies.

Justin Fitzpatrick (born in 1985 in Dublin) lives and works in Paris. He received an MFA in Painting from the Royal College of Art in 2015. Through painting, sculpture, and writing, he explores human consciousness through the lens of biology.
His fantastical works stage mutating figures, Art Nouveau–inspired lines, and Gothic motifs, where bodies become mechanical spaces. Stylized skeletal forms, plants, and insects emphasize the interconnectedness of species, drawing on cellular science, myth, poetry, as well as reflections on social class and sexuality.

Gabriel Fontana is a freelance designer working in the field of social design. He develops projects that combine art, sport and community education. His area of research? Sport. Not as a performance, but as a genuine social laboratory. By inventing new sports, he explores how our bodies internalise and reproduce norms of gender, identity and power, and invites us to unlearn these codes. The games he creates encourage empathy and offer new ways of thinking about the collective. His game Multiform has been introduced in schools across Europe, showcased at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, and recently acquired by MoMA, thereby becoming the first queer sport to be included in a museum collection.

Born in 1984, Faye Formisano graduated from E.S.A.A Duperré in textile design and from Fresnoy - Studio national des arts contemporains. Artist and director, she explores in her work at the crossroads of drawing, textile and cinema, the border of identities through fantastic figures. Inspired by science, dance and literature, she draws from the idea of the monster a principle of metamorphosis that questions the notion of the link between humans and their environment. Combining old and new technologies, her films, drawings and immersive textile installations (VR) are presented in film festivals in France and internationally (Sundance, GIFF in Geneva, Guanajato, Mostra de Sao Paulo, Clermont-Ferrand, Etrange Festival). Her work is also present in various art centers and galleries (CAC Geneva, MBDK Leipzig, Paraédolie Marseille, M.E.P Paris, Gr_und Berlin,). She is currently pursuing a thesis in research-creation at the University of Lille and Fresnoy on the use and functions of the veil in cinema as a manifestation of troubled identities, recently presented at the Gaîté Lyrique.

John Fou (in 1983 in Les Lilas) is a multidisciplinary artist. Self-taught, coming from the world of performing arts and more particularly of circus, dance and theater, he develops a practice of figurative painting in which he portrays social relationships between animals of different species, like an allegory of his life, and more generally of human relations. His experience as a dancer is a major influence on his painting, through the way that the protagonists come into contact: they love each other, size each other up, admire each other, crush each other, cling onto each other and seduce each other.

Max Fouchy (born in 1988 in Grasse) entered the Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2009, in Tadashi Kawamata’s workshop, which put great emphasis on personal practice. This freedom allowed him to develop an intuitive approach, based on almost scientific experiments. His work often consists in collecting random materials and objects and revealing their forgotten potential. After obtaining a DNSAP in 2014, Max created the workshops “Le Lance-Pierre” with other artists, within the Salvation Army.

Clédia Fourniau (b. 1992, Paris) explores the boundaries of painting, questioning how images are created and perceived. A graduate of ENSAAMA and Beaux-Arts de Paris, her practice is rooted in constant experimentation, blending diverse materials such as resin, pigments, oils, and mica onto various textile supports.
By applying glossy resin, Fourniau creates a self-reflexive dialogue between the canvas and its surroundings, physically engaging the viewer through reflections. Her work bridges minimalist inquiries into form and color with an expressive gesturality inherited from Abstract Expressionism. Incorporating cryptic symbols and "fake" characters, she seeks to short-circuit the authority of the artistic gesture through a process-driven, studio-based practice.
Winner of the 2022 Sisley Beaux-Arts de Paris Prize and the 2024 Reiffers Art Initiatives Prize, Fourniau lives and works in Paris.

Henri Frachon conducts fundamental research on the birth of the most elementary forms and is particularly interested in the hole. It is by digging and drilling that he seeks to better understand the essence of this mysterious and vital element. Sculptor born in 1986 in Corsica and raised in Tahiti, he graduated from ENSCI-les Ateliers in 2019 and from Arts et Métiers in 2010. He was a winner of Audi Talents in 2020 and of Villa Noailles in 2021. His work has been exhibited at the Palais de Tokyo, the Picasso Museum in Vallauris, and in Japan.

Between vestige and anticipation, Sacha Gabilan’s work stages soft, ghost-like architectures marked by wear. Sculpture, photography, and archives converge to think of memory as movement: what persists, distorts, and disappears. His pieces evoke scarred skins, chests, or tombs, held in a constant tension between fragility and monumentality. Through wax, wood, or stretched resin, Gabilan creates surfaces of inscription where the trace itself becomes the true subject.

Fernanda Galvão’s practice (b. 1994, São Paulo) is rooted in her relationship with nature, enriched by references to feminist science fiction. Through careful observation of living systems, she develops fictional ecosystems and landscapes shaped by a diffuse memory, engaged in an infinite cycle of metamorphosis.
Working primarily with painting, while also extending into installation and video, her practice opens onto autonomous universes governed by their own spatial and temporal logics. Devoid of sunlight or horizon, these worlds suggest the emergence of an elsewhere, imbued with a deeply personal mythology.
Fernanda Galvão has exhibited in institutions and galleries such as the Museu Oscar Niemeyer (Curitiba, BR.), Instituto Tomie Ohtake and Museu de Arte Brasileira (both in São Paulo, Br.), White Cube (London), Casa Triângulo (São Paulo), Andersen’s Contemporary (Copenhagen), Foundry Seoul, and Lyles & King (New York).

Trained as a graphic designer, Giada Ganassin (born in Ivrea, Italy, in 1988 - lives and works in Paris) uses drawing to invite reflection and allow people to feel understood and comforted beyond language barriers. Her research pushes the sign to its simplest form and mixes it with different materials to allow it to enter the daily life of everyone, at the scale of the house as well as the city. Since 2020, she has been imagining designs that rotate endlessly on François Bonnot's ceramics and objects, as the Ideal Office. Bureau Idéal creates objects that tell stories and open up the everyday to reverie and contemplation. The relationship between form and setting is central and one relies on the other to exist: stories unfold on the surface of the objects and revolve around them - without beginning or end.

Laura Garcia Karras (born in 1988 in Les Lilas) defines her paintings as silent spaces. In the space of this silence, a reflection emerges, at once pictural, philosophical and poetical, essentially based on time. She remembers an incredibly powerful sensation that she felt as a child. She took a fossil in her hand; at that moment, she was fully aware that she was literally holding time, embodied by this small stone. She was holding a natural construction, the mineral moulding of a living form, vegetal or animal, whose imprint travelled through time to find itself in her hand.

Hector Garoscio strives for an aesthetic ideal based on an appreciation of beauty experienced as a dynamic and interactive event; a modified state of consciousness, a moment of poetry and grace. Intuitively, he has come closer to the surface, its reflections and its parallel dimension. As full as flat, it hides an abyss of interpretations, a true ground of imaginary. Like a threshold, it marks the physical transition between two worlds, two potentials.

Anaïs Gauthier was born in 1991 in Paris. Anaïs Gauthier’s immersive installations simulate life that stubbornly persists in failure. She sets in motion various chain reactions within a paradoxical ecosystem where the organic and the mechanical merge without ever fully managing to coexist. Exhaustion is symptomatic of this mutual rejection. Yet these technological reliquaries and these autoimmune forms depend on one another. She regularly collaborates with engineer Matthieu Grivelet, blending art and technology.
Text: Alexia Abed.

Bérénice Gaça Courtin is a multimedia artist based between Geneva and Paris, and a graduate of HEAD – Genève. At the intersection of tapestry, performance, sound, and technology, she develops a practice that considers textiles as a political infrastructure capable of revealing the relationships between bodies and systems of power. Drawing on the history of cryptography specifically that of the Enigma machine, which her grandfather, the Polish resistance member Kazimierz Gaca, worked on her research creates a dialogue between coding devices and digital culture.
She is currently presenting a textile and sound installation at Manifesta 16 Ruhr, the European Nomadic Biennial, in the Ruhr region (Germany), in an exhibition curated by Krzysztof Kosciuczuk and Anda Rottenberg.

Clémence Gbonon is a French artist born in 1994. Her painting work embodies a space of conflict, transformation and the pursuit of self-determination. Between abstraction and figuration, her work articulates dreamlike visions of Black consciousness in search of itself. Clémence Gbonon studied at the Beaux-arts de Paris and the Cooper Union, New York. Her work has been shown in France, the United States, Europe and Nigeria.

Quentin Germain, born in 1987, grew up and lived part of his life abroad, notably in Brazil, the former Yugoslavia and China, where he studied at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. He entered the Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2006 and graduated in 2012 in the studio of James Rielly. Fascinated by archaeology and German romantic painting, he is imbued with the aesthetics of the sublime, perpetuated in the work of Gerhard Richter or Anselm Kiefer, painters who have greatly influenced him. More broadly, cinema and scientific imagery are other essential sources of inspiration for him. His work unfolds through several mediums: painting, sculpture, drawing and installation. Since 2016, his research focuses on ruin and the passage of Time, through series of landscapes and objects that question the duality between natural and artificial. Whether in his paintings painted on oxidized steel, or in his concrete sculptures immersed in the open sea, technique dialogues with living matter, figurative order with natural chaos.

Federico González (Suricata), Mexican multidisciplinary musician and sound artist, bridges indigenous traditions with avant-garde electronic music. Exploring rave culture as an experimental space, he creates links with museums and galleries, questioning sound’s role in cultural identity, social change, and resistance. Based in Paris, he blends field recordings, handmade instruments, and an acid political approach.

The work of Jérôme Grivel (born in 1985 in Mulhouse, graduated from the Villa Arson in Nice in 2010) develops a critical reflection exploring the entangled, sensory, physical and spatial relationships between situations, environments and bodies, and the social, political and psychological states they entail. Declined on the performative mode, his practice unfolds through different disciplines and threads of thought (sculptures, drawings, architectural projects, performances, videos).

Misha Gudwin is an artist and curator born in Voronezh, Russia (November 23, 1995). He lives and works in Paris. He graduated from the BAZA Institute of Contemporary Art in 2021. His artistic practice focuses on the interaction between urban and digital environments, often using found objects that reflect the industrial nature of contemporary cities. His work also engages with internet subcultures and pop culture. Gudwin is a co-founder of the artist-run exhibition space Emergency Space in Paris.

Pauline Guerrier (born in 1990 in Clamart) shares her time between various workshops in Italy, Maghreb, Portugal or Chili. Weavers, glassblowers, stone carvers, glaziers, mosaicists and many others constitute her daily life: she observes, analyzes and learns. Perpetually seeking to learn these ancestral techniques, she confronts the knowledge of yesterday with the world of today and of tomorrow.

Cécile Guettier (born in 1992 in Paris) graduated from the School of Fine Arts of Nantes Métropole in 2018. She was selected for the Révélations Emerige Grant in 2021 and awarded the Villa Noailles Prize.
Exploring Cécile Guettier's work, our gaze is simultaneously carried away by vibrant colors, a teeming multitude of lines, a variety of materials, and captivated by clear composition and sensitive outlines. The artist's intent encounters on canvas and paper, at the crossroads of details, a peculiar happenstance, accidents inherent to the language of painting, which align with her representations and reinforce them; it's as if the image preexisted like a magnet within the blank canvas, and any blot falling onto the surface was destined to fill it. The figures present in her work belong neither to dreams nor nightmares; chimera-like, their enticing colors keep us from being frightened by them, and their unsettling actions make us want to encounter them. It is perhaps this ambivalence that makes the contemplation of these works so generous; a silent excitement settles in, our imagination travels from clue to clue. Through their plastic and narrative singularity, Cécile Guettier's images take their place in our memory alongside those that provided us with answers while simultaneously inventing the questions.

Raphaël Guez (born in 1996 in Paris) is a digital artist and designer who works on the links between spirituality and technology. Using digital collage, video, or 3D, he tries to create various universes where discrepancies in scales, spaces, and emotions question the future of humanity in the age of technology. A machine learning engineer by training, he now wishes to link data and 3D immersion in his artistic approach.

The work of Pascal Hachem (Lebanese born in 1979) involves actions of displacement. These are real actions, not videos, made either by the artist himself or by objects he sets up. He is inspired by aspects of everyday life in the city, which tend to contextualize his way of thinking and influence his work in an unconscious way that he cannot escape. He does not impose any rules on himself, but rather is driven to produce by a single impressionable time.

After studying photography at the Azad University of Tehran, which taught him the role of photography during the Iran-Iraq war, Arash Hanaei (born in 1978 in Tehran, Iran) developed a practice combining mediums and techniques. Since 2015, his practice has been evolving from photography and documentary towards a more speculative and intermedia approach, questioning post-Internet strategies during a political crisis and a crisis of representation.

Shuo Hao is a contemporary artist based in Paris. After graduating from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing (CAFA), she studied at the Sorbonne and then at the Haute École des Arts du Rhin (HEAR). Represented by Galerie Derouillon, Shuo Hao has held several solo exhibitions in Paris and has participated in numerous group exhibitions internationally. Her work explores the intersection of dual cultural iconographies and the metamorphosis of the body.

Bérénice Haëntjens grew up in Rome; and lives and works in Paris. Her work explores how our individual traumas are reflected in our behaviour and interactions, in what binds us together and what tears us apart, in the emotional turmoil associated with hardship, and in events that trigger total inner chaos. Ordures (to be published by Jouuue! in January 2027) is her first novel. She joined POUSH to be at the heart of contemporary creative practice for a second long-term writing project.

HEADBUTT, co-founded by Vanille Ferragu and Marie Manguele, reinvents the electronic music scene by creating new imagery shaped by their perspectives as mixed-race women, while paying tribute to Black cultures. Between club nights and THINK HEADBUTT, music, bodies, performance, and machines come together to rethink celebration as a space for play, freedom, and shared narratives.
Machines are highlighted, but the visuals, always handmade, question the use of AI today, celebrating imperfection, unpredictability, and free expression.

My-Lan Hoang-Thuy graduated from the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris. She was awarded a residency at the Académie des Beaux-Arts and received the Yishu 8 Prize. She has held solo exhibitions in museums (MEP) as well as in several galleries, including Galerie Mitterrand, Project Native Informant, and Galerie Semiose.
Her work has been shown in various institutions (Stedelijk Schiedam Museum, FRAC Île-de-France) and is included in the collections of FRAC Auvergne, FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, FRAC Nouvelle-Aquitaine, the MEP, and the City of Montrouge.

Maria Ibanez Lago (born in 1960 in Buenos Aires) has participated and launched collective artistic projects, within which she also served as curator. She works on the materiality of the image and its relation to objects in order to evoke a dramaturgy. Painting is examined in its historical context, and the boundaries of the format are expanded towards its defining limits, attempting to transform it into an object, a sculpture.

Lev Ilizirov (born in 1979 in Russia) emigrated to Israel in 1996. After studying at the Bezalel Academy of Arts in Jerusalem, he chose to focus on documentary photography. The incorporeal message and the abstraction of the world were the main aims of his work then. At the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Amsterdam, the elements and the frame of daily life became the basis of his work. The unexpected, created by the accidental interference of external factors, an imperceptible phenomenon, is what he tries to capture with his camera, later giving it shape through installation.

Clara Imbert ( born in 1994), graduated from Central Saint Martins in 2017. Her approach consists of an exploration of the relationships between the notions of reality and illusion, space and perspective, the object itself and the observer. She draws on physical, mathematical and philosophical theories to experiment with different materialities and thus unravel intangible ideas. She studies the invisible to reveal new dimensions. Her research leads to the realization of projects that can take various forms such as photography, sculpture and installation.

Daniel Jablonski (Rio de Janeiro, 1985) is an artist, teacher, and researcher. He applies research methods to his own daily life to produce works that function as true “case studies.” These research-creation objects can take various forms—such as installations, photographs, objects, performances, or writings—and be presented in exhibitions, publications, or conferences. For many years, he taught and coordinated educational programs at the School of Arts in Rio de Janeiro and at the São Paulo Museum of Art. Currently living between Brazil and France, he teaches contemporary art history at CY Cergy Paris Université and is pursuing a practice-based PhD at ENSAPC.

Luke James’ practice, composed mainly of sculptural work, establishes a physical relationship with materials and space. His sculptures can be understood as a series of sensitive gestures applied to materials treated in a raw manner. His work develops between dynamics of force and curiosity: humans, animals, architecture, and social classes are among the elements of interaction that the artist observes and questions in his daily practice.

Cameron Jamie (born 1969 in Los Angeles, California USA) Over the course of more than three decades, American artist Cameron Jamie has established a multi-faceted practice defined by cultural exploration and formal experimentation that resists categorizations. His artwork encompasses a wide range of artistic cross-disciplines including drawing, painting, sculpture, ceramics, printmaking, photography, performance, filmmaking, music, and independent publishing. Jamie’s work has explored, investigated, and analysed how the structures of mythology and rituals in popular and vernacular cultures are shaped and shared, and the extent to which they participate in the creation of individuals’ fictional worlds and fictional selves. In 2016, Jamie was the recipient of the Prix de dessin de la Fondation d'art contemporain Daniel et Florence Guerlain in France. He has been based in Paris since 2000.

Myriam Jarmache is an opera singer and dancer. All her research links these two practices: Becoming a body and a voice without hierarchizing these modalities. Initially trained at the Radio France Master's degree, she went on to follow a multi-disciplinary path combining singing, contemporary dance and theater. Transmission and laboratories around song and dance are a passion-creation in their own right. She has worked with François Chaignaud, Les Cris de Paris and Magali Dougoud, and is a member of the La Ville en Feu and La Grosse Plateforme collectives. She joins StudioK at POUSH in October 2022, and continues her research into the decompartmentalization of opera singing, or how to desacralize a so-called "learned" art, summoning the intimate rather than the spectacular.

Ellande Jaureguiberry (born in 1985 in Paris) is a sculptor and illustrator who uses a wide range of materials and techniques, but he focuses especially on ceramic. He develops a shapeshifting work that questions the relation of belonging and resonance between the human mind and the universe, a dialectic of body and space, attempting to reunite them as paradoxical aspects of one reality. Rooting his research in a relationship with the unconscious, he explores the links between architecture and nature in a movement between structure and ornament.

Ángela Jiménez Durán (born 1996 in Madrid) graduated from the École d'arts de Paris-Cergy in 2019. She lives and works between Paris and Madrid. Her artistic practice revolves around installation and sculpture in conjunction with the written word, blending science fiction, geology and biology, exploring uncertain futures. Inspired by magic realism, her works unfold multiple narratives, provoking feelings of strangeness, like clues to an enigma to be solved.

Isabel Judez (born in 1992 in Guri, Venezuela) is an artist and architect based in Paris. Through sculpture, installation and performance, she challenges rigid narratives of territorial history and envisions inclusive and environmentally friendly forms of heritage. Combining natural fibres, stone and collective actions, her practice explores the relationships between territory, memory and transmission.

June is a multidisciplinary artist. Through sculpture, her work evokes the absurd, paradox, absence, and memory. She composes environments with ambiguous scales using architectural, sonic, visual, and poetic fragments.

Kyoko Kasuya is a Japanese artist and film-maker who lives in Paris. After the 2011 earthquake and tsunami and the Fukushima accident, she chose to stay in France, which prompted her to explore contemporary society and its identity. Her work focuses on the temporality of shared experiences, memories of the Second World War and the lives of contemporary women. Her work deals with sociological and historical subjects, aiming for a universal understanding of human experience. Since 2020, she has been a member of Crown Letter, an international collective of women artists, and has exhibited at various festivals and institutions such as BIENALSUR, KYOTOGRAPHIE, the Fiminco Foundation and the Institut Français.

Farid Kati (1994) is a Franco-Algerian artist whose multidisciplinary practice—spanning installation, sculpture, video, and drawing—explores invisible forces and dynamics of displacement. A graduate of the Beaux-Arts in Le Mans and Paris, he creates kinetic dispositifs that transform wind into “adugraphies” (adu meaning wind in Berber), revealing questions of memory, migration, transmission, and mobility through sensitive, site-related forms.

Alexandre Khondji’s practice (born in France) is grounded in a contextual and experimental approach. His works, diverse in form and method, seek a balance between the act of intervention and the intrinsic qualities of the contexts they inhabit.
His work has been presented at the Okayama Art Summit in Japan, the Fondation Pernod Ricard in Paris, Sweetwater gallery in Berlin, the Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK) in Frankfurt, the CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain in Bordeaux, and the LUMA Foundation in Arles.

Morteza Khosravi, born in 1988 in Bojnourd, Iran, is an Iranian artist who lives and works in Paris. His practice develops primarily through painting and sculpture. Based in Paris since 2023, he joined POUSH in 2025, where he continues to develop his work in his studio.
His research envisions painting as an autonomous medium. Nourished by art history, cinema, photographic archives, and personal or anonymous images, his works question the memory of images, their displacement, and the conditions of their appearance.
Morteza Khosravi has presented several solo exhibitions, notably at Leila Heller Gallery in Dubai and New York, Galleri Ramfjord in Oslo, Artlab Gallery in Beirut, as well as Iranshahr and Golestan galleries in Tehran, Danjeh in Semnan, and 4rtgallery in France.
His work has also been featured at the MENART Fair in Paris and Brussels, Contemporary Istanbul, Beirut Art Fair, Festival Partage des Arts, as well as in the group exhibition Demeure, organized by POUSH at the Paris Pantin Cemetery.

Tilhenn Klapper (b. 1994, Vermont, USA) is a visual artist and choreographer with degrees from the Beaux-Arts de Paris (MFA Atelier Danse Emmanuelle Huynh), Sciences Po Paris (MA Political Ecology), and Vassar College in NY (BA Philosophy). She is interested in the forms and practices linking humans to the invisible and the sacred in pre-modernity, and what they do to the noeliberal scheme. Her works are ways of keeping in touch with the embedded memories and hallucinations that the earth holds.

Margaux Knight is an independent curator with a background in social sciences and Latin American studies. Her curatorial projects are rooted in critical reflection on displacement and the decentering of perspectives, drawing on feminist and decolonial epistemologies from a situated standpoint.
Recently, she has curated group exhibitions at POUSH, in the historic Cité Falguière studio, at Julio Artist-Run Space, and at the Casabanchel cultural center, as well as solo exhibitions at ARCO Madrid and Salon H. In parallel, she writes curatorial texts for galleries and institutions (Jousse Entreprise, Fundacion EACHEVE, Paris Photo…). She is a member of the feminist association Contemporaines and the Bureau des penseur.euses at POUSH.

Painter of Russian origin. Born in Moscow (in 1987), she lived in Laos and Italy before settling in Paris. After studying literature, philosophy, and photography school, Nina Koltchitskaia turned to painting. She expresses herself through poetry and painting in a unique and sensitive style. On canvases or large murals, her intuitive works express freedom and romance. Her work is characterized by a soft and dreamy atmosphere, where each piece becomes an emotional journey. Through her creations, Nina Koltchitskaia invites an intimate exploration of the human soul, blending sensitivity, poetry, and a touch of magic. She questions memory, the curvature of time, and the representation of love. Her paintings evoke the tranquility preceding a storm, capturing frozen landscapes and dreamlike scenes where flying fish and birds converse with the moon, in a palette of romantic colors. NK regularly exhibits her projects in Paris (« la Femme fleur et
l’Oiseau » musical portraits - 2021) and in Asie (« Romance » museum of Contemporary art of Seoul - 2021, and « le Tour du Monde avant la Tempête » solo show at the WWF gallery Seoul,
Korea - 2025).

Born in 1995, Gabrielle Kourdadzé grew up in Paris in a French-Georgian family. She graduated in 2019 from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Paris. Her work revolves around the mediums of ink drawing and oil painting, and deals with the representation of the body and its inscription in the social space. She is also a musician (piano, accordion and singing), and her plastic works are combined with sound installations.

Hélène Labadie is an artist and object designer. In ceramics, glass, textile or metal, her creations seem to be caught between two disciplines, at the border of art and design. Largely anthropomorphic, the objects "are directly inspired by film characters" she confides. Her strange and unique objects are close to cartoon characters with which she recreates her own fictions.

Louis Lanne is a graduate of the Beaux-Arts in Paris. Inspired by comic strips, Louis uses the magnetic whiteboard as a support for his creations. He superimposes paint, resin, felt and tar to form microcosms saturated with colour and detail. His compositions, dense and abundant, evoke stories in filigree, mixing adult and child realities with an identifiable and playful visual vocabulary.

Working at the intersection of video, photography, and contemporary dance, Ludivine Large-Bessette uses the body as both subject and motif to capture our desires for power and our limits (artificial, physical, and normative). Historical and popular imagery, which often inspires her work, supports the construction of contemporary allegories that challenge the viewer’s position and our relationship to progress and power strategies.

The obsession of Amalia Laurent (born in 1992 in France to a Javanese mother and a Languedoc father) with alternative realities has given rise to a body of work - installations, performances, sculptures, dyeings - that makes tangible the boundaries between real and parallel worlds. In 2023, she obtained a second Master's degree at EHESS - Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales - and continued her thesis there. She was awarded the Mondes Nouveaux scholarship in 2023 and is currently a resident at the Villa Médicis (2024/2025).

Victoria Le Boloc’h-Salama is an independent art critic, cultural programmer, and podcast producer and director.
Trained as an art historian and a member of AICA, she supports artists in the development of their projects. A founding member of the collective Jeunes Critiques d’Art and co-founder of Le Bruit de l’Art, she regularly writes for media outlets, galleries, and institutions. She also curates and moderates talks, and occasionally serves as a jury member within the contemporary art network in France.

After a first career in architecture, Anna Le Corno (born in 1987 in Vanves) learnt cabinetmaking at the École Boulle. Creating a dialogue between tradition and the digital world and questioning abstraction, action and time, her graphic and colorimetric research is expressed through marquetry frescoes and unique pieces of furniture with an animal and poetic language.

Tommy Lecot was born in Paris in 1992.
Drawing on existing entities, he assembles a variety of materials in order to achieve a formal concordance, an obviousness.
His many references to the history of art reflect a desire to understand the past in order to place it in tension with its present environment.
Through a variety of plastic approaches, his approach reveals his doubts, not so much out of humility as out of a desire to reveal himself to the viewer.

Thomas Lelouch is an artist and designer who graduated from the Arts Décoratifs de Paris in 2015 with a degree in animation film. His practice in stop-motion volume gradually led him towards sculpture and spatial design. Trained in various artistic crafts, notably plasterwork (staff) and bronze, he went on to co-found the creative studio Atelier Craft in 2015.
In 2023, he resumed his sculpting practice, focusing on a "collectible design" approach, blurring the lines between art and design. Since then, he has collaborated with artist Clémence Mars, with whom he created the White Noise collection of sculptural furniture, exhibited at Maison & Objet In the City 2025 and the Paris Design Week 2024 and 2025 editions.

Mathilde Lestiboudois, born in 1992, graduated from the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris (2017). She also studied at the Universitäte der Kunste, Berlin, in 2016 and was a resident at Casa Velasquez in 2021-2022. Through the medium of painting, Mathilde Lestiboudois represents empty interior spaces. Intermingling architectural fragments and geometric forms, she questions space and its temporal dimension.

Anne Le Troter (1985) is an artist based in Paris who combines sound installation, performance, theater, literature and poetry.
After writing two books, "L'encyclopédie de la matière" and "Claire, Anne, Laurence", she began to work on the place of speech at work. Thus Anne Le Troter invites groups of people such as ASMR artists and telephone interviewers to record with her ("L'appétence", sound piece, 2016 Prize of the Salon de Montrouge and the Palais de Tokyo, "Les mitoyennes" La BF15, 2015, "Liste à puces" Palais de Tokyo, 2017 and "Les silences après une question" at the Institut d'Art Contemporain de Villeurbanne, 2017). Invited by the Pernod Ricard Foundation, the Rennes Biennial, the contemporary art center Le Grand Café in Saint Nazaire, the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas and the Centre Pompidou, the artist then engages other writing cycles around the notion of biography, fiction and utopia around the question of our modes of reproduction. In 2021 she was awarded the Bétonsalon and ADAGP grants (Les Volontaires, pigments-médicaments, Bétonsalon, center d'art et de recherche, 2022), Mondes Nouveaux as well as the Kujoyama villa.

Augustin Lignier (born in 1995), a graduate of ECAL and the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris, explores the performative dimension of photography, from its production to its reception. At the intersection of scientific experimentation and absurd gestures, his work questions the mechanisms of image-making and the impact of digital technology on our modes of perception. His practice unfolds across performance, installation, and conceptual photography.

Renske Linders (born in 1995 in The Hague, Netherlands) has been residing in Paris since 2022, after obtaining her degree in Art & Culture from Erasmus University Rotterdam in 2021. Through her oil paintings, the artist captures intimate and flourishing moments, evoking love, rebirth, and exploration, all while consistently celebrating the feminine form. Through compositions imbued with softness and mystery, Renske's work conveys a message of hope and emancipation.

The Local Technique collective, located within the POUSH community in Aubervilliers (Sucre building), is a space for exchange and experimentation that brings together curators and art workers. Operating at the intersection of practices such as writing, criticism, research, scenography, and curating, it is conceived as a textual laboratory and a visual platform driven by encounters, dialogue, and exploration.
While Local Technique functions primarily as an office dedicated to the analysis of contemporary cultural practices, the space also operates as a project space, hosting specific programming that includes screenings, performances, exhibitions, readings, discussions, and editorial research.
Members: Alice Loumeau, Anna Tardivel, Anne-Laure Peressin, Clara Darrason, Lou-Justin Tailhades, Mahsan Shams, Margaux Knight, Raphaël Giannesini, Valentin Bansac, Victoria Le Boloc’h-Salama

Thibault Lucas (born in 1984 in Suresnes) creates, inter alia, installations in situ in “useless” areas on the outskirts of Paris, or in unusual places such as the belfry of the Mairie du 1er arrondissement or the Church of Saint-Merry. Stone is a central motif in his work: it allows him to create endless landscapes, or sculptures evoking archaic or sacred monuments, made out of materials that he collects in the city or in nature.

Born in Guernsey 1989. Isaac Lythgoe is a sculptor and writer, he studied painting at the Royal College of Art, London (2014.) Repurposing ideas from narrative and storytelling traditions, his work is an open-ended discussion of prospective technologies and how they might influence our future societal structures. Ethics, romance and mortality serve as fluctuating, narrative arcs - vehicles to mediate a research practice, which considers the integration of synthetic and biological systems as the most prescient grounds for changes and challenges to the human experience. In practice these ideas are approached both conceptually and materially; works appear as stories, playing out in a blend of symbolic organic materials and new media techniques, the handmade and the machined in continual flux.

Born in 1992 in Besançon, Denis Macrez graduated from the École Supérieure d'Art de Rennes in 2018. He will be in residence in Reykjavik for two months in 2021, where he will present an exhibition at the SIM gallery. On his return, he exhibited in a duo show with Marguerite Piard at the Chapelle XIV gallery. More recently, the artist was invited by the Fonds de Dotation Verrecchia, for a four-month residency at the Château de la Maye in Versailles. Since then, he has been spotted by the collector's collective CulturFoundry, with whom he will exhibit in October 2022.

Working across sculpture, sound, and voice, Beka Magyarlaki (born in 1992, Hungary) creates immersive installations that explore the body as a container of intimate and cultural memory, as well as a site of political and morphological transformation. Hybrid forms and layered sound pieces unfold a queer psychological landscape, weaving a poetic narrative around belonging, trans identity, and collective dreams. Since graduating in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins (2017), she has exhibited in the United Kingdom, France, Morocco, Portugal, Turkey, and Hungary. Her recent works have received support from PARIS-B and the CNAP in France. Her work has also been nominated for the MullenLowe NOVA Awards and the International Takifuji Art Award.

Bastien Mairet (Born in Tarbes, France, in 1988) combines his technical and artistic background by inking mechanical automatons, whether they be mechanical motors with clock springs, with the use of modern electronics for his pieces. He works in collaboration with other artists to set their creations in motion for store windows or exhibitions.

Demian Majcen (born in 1992 in Saint-Cloud) graduated from Villa Arson and from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Paris. He sees his work as a filter through which he can learn and observe the world in the present. He thus leads an open-ended quest, made up of encounters, successes and failures. He transforms artefacts into possible utopias and seeks to give beauty back its purpose, to give the world an end, so that it can begin again.

Olivera Majcen is a Serbian-Croatian artist who grew up with artisan and weaver grandparents who gave her a taste for the intelligence of the hand. After graduating from the Belgrade Fine Arts School in 1984, she participated in several exhibitions as a painter before arriving in Paris in 1991. It is then that she devoted herself to fashion design for ten years. Since 2006, she continues her practice as a painter and set designer between Paris and Belgrade.

Sarah Makharine is an artist and photographer whose work explores the human body as a means to question identity, gender, and social perceptions. Through her art, she seeks to deconstruct stereotypes and give voice to stories that are often overlooked.
By combining analog and digital media, she challenges established norms and reveals hidden realities. Her artistic approach focuses on issues of gender and identity, as seen in Papa (2021), where she invites her father to cross-dress, and Le Mikve, which examines the role of women in religious rituals.
Projects such as From Ramallah to the Eiffel Tower celebrate the liberation of women's bodies in conflict zones.
Through her installations, Sarah Makharine aspires to shape a more inclusive and emancipated collective imagination.

François Malingrey lives and works in Paris, after studying in Épinal and Strasbourg. His intriguing and dark universe unfolds through a figurative painting which stages his close relations and his family. His exhibitions are often accompanied by sculptures and painted wood. He has notably collaborated with the Palais de Tokyo, Christie's, the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature and the Lefeuvre & Roze gallery.

Arianna Marcolin was born on 1998 in Schio, Italy. She grew up between her family’s typography and the countryside. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts of Venice, where she graduated in Painting and obtained a master’s degree in Art Graphics and Publishing. She was selected for the artist residency program of the Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation and ViaFarini Milano. She collaborates with Cassata Drone Expanded Archive Palermo. In 2023 she presents Stanza Iperbarica, her first solo show in Rome at Galleria Ex Elettrofonica.

Alix Marie (b.1989 in Bobigny) is a French multidisciplinary artist. She graduated from Central Saint Martins College in 2011 and the Royal College of Art (2014). Recent exhibitions include: Spiritual Urgency, Stedelijk Schiedam (2022), Styx, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg (solo, 2022), Sorsi Di Sale, Ncontemporary, Milan (solo, 2022), Raw, Rembrandthuis, Amsterdam, (2022), Sucer la nuit, Musée des beaux-arts, Le Locle (solo, 2019).

Clémence Mars (born in 1992 in Paris) graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Paris, and from the School of Visual Theater of Jerusalem, a performance art school where she spent two years. Visual artist and scenographer, she creates fictional universes based on the imagery of science-fiction, through scenography, light, performance and drawing.

MATTERS.xyz is a tentacular collective endeavor that explores new territorial narratives through creative research and exhibitions. Their investigations portray the entanglement of human and non-human trajectories through political and ecological controversies.
Alice Loumeau is an architect-cartographer; Valentin Bansac is a researcher-photographer. They met at OMA/AMO and took part in the Experimentation in Arts and Politics program at the Paris Institute of Political Studies.
In 2025, they will be together with Mike Fritsch the curators of the Luxembourg pavilion entitled Sonic Investigations at the Venice Architecture Biennale.

Garance Matton (born in 1992 in Paris) graduated from the Beaux-Arts de Paris. Painting is a playing field, a puzzle that combines everyday life with formal or narrative references to art history. The dialogue between the elements leaves the image unresolved, subjected to a rhythm which seems to evoke an uncertain space-time. In her work as a painter, Garance engages in a vivid conversation with the medium, where ideas appear and disappear in this calm but intense debate with painting.

François Maurin (born 1989 in Paris) graduated from ENSBA in 2013 and also studied at the Kunstakademie der Bildenden in Karlsruhe, Germany. Both a sculptor and a painter, his practice unfolds in different projects that he carries out in parallel. Works to look at or to manipulate, the objects he conceives question us on the possible dialogues between our singular imaginary and the links that weave between us our social practices.

The work of Mathew McWilliams (born in 1973 Vancouver, Canada) brings together painting, drawing and photography as parallel yet interwoven practices of mark-making. Reconfiguring the basic ingredients of drawing and print technology, McWilliams seeks to experiment with new material expression.

Théodore Melchior, born in 1990, graduated from ESAD in Reims in 2017 and officiated in the Chevaline Corporation collective from 2014 to 2020.
Amazed by modernity and the Gothic, by John Kennedy Toole's The Conjuring of Fools and William Shakespeare's tragedies, Théodore sets out to construct the surreal remains of a grotesque and grandiose society, self-satisfied but lost in advance. To this end, he explores a wide range of media: installation, sculpture, staging, video, writing, publishing and podcasting. Théodore's visual and narrative quest pursues the turpitudes of the contemporary world, between past splendors and foretold catastrophes, with the same dash of humor and romanticism.

Florent Meng lives and works in Aubervilliers. Trained as a photographer, he uses both photographic series and film; both fiction and documentary. Working on frontier terrain as well as in the studio, he develops a vocabulary of plastic gestures in stages, working the documentary style as a speculative tool. His work has been shown at the Musée d'Art Contemporain de Lyon and at the Biennale de l'Image en Mouvement in Geneva. It is part of the collections of the CNAP and elysée Photo in Lausanne.

Through his work, Joshua Merchan Rodriguez explores what he calls “knots”: points of convergence where historical, political, and poetic dimensions intertwine, and where transformations, displacements, and material manipulations occur. These knots can take the form of concrete processes such as the commodification of the coca leaf in the 18th century, the domestication of maize, or the exploitation of horseshoe crabs by the pharmaceutical industry. By pulling at the threads that compose these knots, he seeks to reveal the complexities and tensions that shape human and interspecies relationships.

Matisse Mesnil (born 1989 in Castiglion Fiorentino, Italy) lives and works in Paris. He uses metal to replay figurative art in its most familiar genres, such as landscape and still life. To the noisy world of industry, he adds the ethics and aesthetics of silent contemplation that run through the history of landscape. A muted violence underlies his pieces, which nonetheless appeal to a form of religiosity that can also be read in the demanding scenography and architecture of his work.

Margaux Meyer (born 1998 in Suresnes) graduated from the Beaux-arts de Paris in 2022, from Tim Eitel's studio. Her practice discusses the very nature of pictorial language through a materialist and fluctuating impression. Her thinking is shaped by psychological reactions and sensations that place the body at the center of her representational work. Her practice is articulated around gestural and sensitive elements, resulting in a strong organic tension.

Sabine Mirlesse (born in 1986 in the USA) holds a Master of Fine Arts from the New School in New York and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from McGill University in Montréal. Her research focuses on the visibility of thresholds and the interiority of landscape, with a particular interest in how geological sites are divined, interpreted and narrated. Her multidisciplinary approach links photography and geology as guardians of time, and manifests itself in an accumulation of layers and strata.

Saeideh Mirshekar, born in 1984 and graduated in carpet design, has developed her artistic practice between painting and carpet design. After more than a decade of work in Tehran and participating in several group exhibitions, she has been based in Paris since 2023. Her works reflect the fragile beauty of the world and a balance between emotion and aesthetics. Today, she explores new perspectives at the POUSH studio.

Adrien Missika (b.1981, Paris) humorously investigates the paradoxes of the natural and the cultural. Using epistemology as a base for research, his conceptual approach drifts into poetic and hypothetical narratives.
Through a variety of media, from video, photography, sculpture to installation and action, the work digs into the wide range of natural and environmental sciences. Overcoming the logic of capitalism, Missika's artistic practice nurtures a space for possible worlds. Adrien Missika (b.1981, Paris) is an artist and an amateur curator. He studied art at Ecole Cantonale d’art de Lausanne (Ecal) following a law degree from the Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne. He was a co-founder of Galerie 1M3, Lausanne, (2006-2014), founder and art director of Belo Campo Lisbon, (2017- present) and founder of MOTUS gallery (2022-present).

Juliette Mock (born 1992) produces works that draw on a personal and often flat material life, while evacuating the subjectivity of its author. She belongs to a generation that has integrated the mechanisms of artistic production based on the everyday and the narrative, whether fictional or autofictional. She allows form and motif to create the possibility of a narrative, and is not afraid to produce works that evoke a slightly obsolete emotion. The objects and images she produces display a tension between the graceful and the ordinary, the beautiful and the slouchy.

Yosra Mojtahedi, born in Tehran, is a graduate of Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains. She explores the boundaries between the living and the non-living through sculptures she conceives as hybrid “human-machines,” sometimes interactive, combining soft robotics, emerging technologies, and organic materials.
Coming from a context where the body is a taboo subject, her work develops a sensual and sensory language — tactile, olfactory, sometimes erotic — blurring the limits between machine and flesh, human and non-human, real and unreal. Her works, infused with a political sensuality, reinvent narratives around femininity, technology, and spirituality.

Born and raised in Rio de Janeiro (1994), Gabriel Moraes Aquino has been living in France since 2017. His practice is shaped by displacement, encounter, and a close attention to the formation of imaginaries—particularly those linked to the exotic, their legacies, and their contemporary shifts. Through sculpture, installation, photography, textile, film, and performance, he composes sensitive narratives between bodies, landscapes, and collective memories.
A graduate of the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris (2020) and recipient of the FoRTE grant (2022), he has collaborated with the Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection, the Institut National des Jeunes Aveugles, the A4 Art Museum (Chengdu), the Ateliers Médicis, the Fondation Fiminco, the Fondation MRO (Arles), and the Musée Paul Éluard, among others.

Raphaël Moreira Gonçalves (born in 1988, Lyon), hailing from Cape Verde and Italy, is graduated of Le Fresnoy and the Fine Arts of Lyon His works are driven by a quest for communication with other universes. Through sculptures, films, and various images related to contemporary technologies, his work explores the connections between the physical and the mental, while incorporating narrative nuances drawn from his personal experiences, dreams, and virtual worlds. His works have been exhibited internationally, including at the Christophe Gaillard gallery, the ClearView gallery in London, and most recently at the Refraction Festival during the Miami Art Week 2022.

Winnie Mo Rielly (born in London, UK) is based in Paris, France.
The intimacy suggested in Winnie Mo Rielly's practice is at the heart of her multidisciplinary work. Her works intertwine a mapping of documented bodily movements with diverse perceptions of space.
Winnie will present her first institutional solo exhibition at the MEP in Paris June 2026. She recently was awarded the Île-de-France Region - FoRTE Contemporary Art Prize and the Adagp Connexion France grant. Her work will be presented soon Hussenot, Alkinois (Athens), and sissi Club (Marseille). Recent group exhibitions include Frac - Les Réserves, Essais, Chateau La Coste, Magasins Généraux, Théatre Nationale de Chaillot, Galerie Sans-Titre, Galerie Balice Hertling, Les Rencontres d’Arles, La Fondation Fiminco, Camden Art Center (UK). Her works are held in the collections of FRAC Ile-de-France, Dior, Société Générale, and Chaumet.

Cassandre Muñoz is a movement artist. Her practice explores the vibratory space opened by the polysemy of a state, a gesture, an intention. D.A. and choreographer of the company So Far, her research crosses multiple acts: dancing, sailing, blowing, staring, exhausting, losing. She currently collaborates with the artists Emmanuel Eggermont (All over Nymphéas), Volmir Cordeiro (Abri), Youness Aboulakoul (Ayta), Lisa Boostani (Passages), Annabelle Playe (Magna) and NSDOS (PP).

Alexandre Nitzsche Cysne (born in Rio de Janeiro in 1998) has been living in Paris since 2022, where he completed his Master’s degree (with highest honors) at the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris in Tatiana Trouvé’s studio. During his studies, he collaborated with artist Sophie Calle. He is the recipient of the Prix Baudry d’Asson, awarded by the Amis des Beaux-Arts de Paris (2024), and of the Prix Carré-Sur-Seine (2025). His artistic approach is grounded in affective animism and stems from his interest in an archaeology of the sensible: the possibility of intersecting stories through the recovery of urban and domestic materials and minimalist gestures. His intentions crystallize in the form of sculptures, installations, and drawings. The artist plays with life at the limits of the world.

Viktoriia Oreshko (born in 1997 in Sarny, Ukraine) graduated with highest honors from the Monumental Painting Department of the National Academy of Fine Arts in Lviv in 2018. She then continued her studies at the École supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, before joining Tim Eitel’s studio at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2022, where she graduated with highest honors in 2025.
Through objects, interiors, and everyday details from her native country, she brings forth subtle presences. Beneath this softness, however, a tension emerges, where reality and violence surface in filigree.

Daniel Otero Torres' multidisciplinary work encompasses practices as diverse as sculpture, installation, ceramics, painting, and drawing, which has linked these different facets since the beginning. Many of his works are distinguished precisely by a unique technique, on the border between drawing and sculpture, marked by a virtuoso photo-realistic line applied to monumental structures in cut steel. This process produces a material and contextual shift. In general, his images do not represent a single person, but a visual and historical collage created from different sources: archives, old books, contemporary newspapers or online sources.

Born in Istanbul in 1997, Emre Özakat explores the memory and circulation of digital images through painting. He reconfigures images found online into canvases where they are warped, stretched, or fractured, and where obfuscation forms a pictorial language. Thin layers of oil, fading into the linen, lend the images a spectral presence, highlighting the tension between fleeting digital circulation and the slow temporality of painting.

Masha Pangilinan is a Russian-Filipino artist. Born in 1990 in Kurgan (Russia) and graduated from the Moscow Academy of Fine Arts (V. Surikov). She has been living and working in Paris since 2014. In her work, Masha explores the representation of male and female bodies in art history. In her pseudo-paradise world, she changes the conventional perception of the male gaze towards the reified body, using classical references from art history in her compositions.

Ji-Min Park (born in 1988 in Seoul) lives and works in Paris. A graduate of the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, her work has always been
multidisciplinary. She navigates fluidly between different worlds, different states, and different practices. This is how she regularly collaborates with performers or even filmmakers. In 2021 she participated in the film Return to Seoul by Davy Chou as the main actress, a film selected for the Cannes Film Festival 2022.

Juliette Peres (born in 1997 in Asnières) graduated from the Beaux-Arts in Paris in 2023. Her practice focuses on exploring our ways of relating to the world, to the natural and cultural bonds we have with other species: goats, dogs, daisies... Based on dialogues with specialists (botanists, archivists, illusionists, etc.), she creates and shares texts, tools, and performances that reveal our conscious and unconscious ways of coexisting.

Born in 1991, Anne-Laure Peressin is an art critic and curator. With a degree in law and art history, she was an active member of the Young Art Critics Collective (YACI) from its creation to 2020, editor in chief in the art press for 4 years and author in art popularization for the 8-12 at Fleurus editions. She regularly collaborates in the writing of exhibition catalogs and conducts interviews with artists, notably for the Editions des Beaux-arts de Paris. Since 2021, she has been working on a cultural rehabilitation project for the Château de Saumane, known as the Château du Marquis de Sade, to become a future cultural center for contemporary art and literature. In 2023, she co-founded the collective La Force des Choses with Salma Cheddadi and Frédérique Sarkozy around the notions of circularity in contemporary creation, to question the value of human labor spent in the mechanisms of fabrication, monstration, mediatization, circulation or exchange in an ecosystem strongly impacted by our behaviors and our modes of consumption. His research is essentially focused on three axes: the mediation of contemporary art with young people; a reflexion on the object-work to better understand its components and deployments; and a reflexive approach of the devices and the place of the exhibition - conditional thought of the apprehension of contemporary art -.

Raphaëlle Peria (born in 1989 in Amiens) graduated from the Beaux-Arts de Paris. In her work, she questions the duality of Man and Nature, scratching the photographs that she takes during her travels all over the world to distort them. Since 2016, she has been represented by Galerie Papillon.

Simon Petit Fort (b. Paris, 1991) graduated from the Sorbonne, Villa Arson and Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2024. His practice combines installation, sculpture, image and text. His work focuses on an osmotic relationship between the body and its environment. Shapes, colors, lights and textures help to blur the boundaries between body and object, body and space, and to imagine how new regimes of corporeal and sensitive existence might be translated. His work has been shown at the Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles in Paris, the Crous Gallery and the Strouk Gallery, and was published in the latest issue of NNFICTION 06.

Margot Pietri (born in 1990) explores the relationships and affects that humans have with technology. She produces science fiction narratives in which the modalities of our relationships - to objects, to the machine, to others, to the environment and to images - are renegotiated. She imagines new ways of living in a society without hierarchy, where the rhythms of life and work are not based on a presupposed utilitarianism. From these narratives are born sculptures and paintings with altered functionalities that evoke artificial landscapes. She is preparing her next soloshow at the Serre in Saint-Etienne.

Lucile Piketty (born 1990 in Paris) is a French artist who graduated in printmaking from the École Estienne. She then studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris where she obtained a one-year exchange scholarship to Parsons School in New York before graduating from ENSAD in 2015. Lucile Piketty's work results from the observation of her surroundings, from a work of memory and interpretation. From the engraved, cut out and printed wooden board to canvas and paper, she uses various mediums in search of a plastic and sensitive dimension. Time, waiting, and the cycles of life are themes that recur periodically in her work, while references to the history of art, popular art, and comics are mixed with memories of daily life, and feed her different research.

Émilie Pitoiset (born in 1980, lives and works in Paris) explores, through installations, sculptures, videos, and choreographies, tragi-comic scenarios shaped by our collective fantasies and the desires that structure our social lives.
Her work has been widely exhibited in institutions such as the Centre Pompidou, the Centre National de la Danse, the Palais de Tokyo, Bozar in Brussels, Tai Kwun Contemporary in Hong Kong, the Museo Marino Marini in Florence, the Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt, and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, among others.
Her works are held in numerous public and private collections, including the Centre Pompidou, the Centre National des Arts Plastiques (FNAC), the Musée Départemental de Rochechouart, FRAC Île-de-France, FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, FRAC Sud, FRAC Auvergne, FRAC Occitanie, FRAC Franche-Comté, as well as the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich, the DZ Bank Sammlung in Frankfurt, the Philara Collection in Düsseldorf, and the AVN Collection in Austria.

Olivain Porry is an artist and PhD (SACRe) from the EnsadLab laboratory of the École des Arts Décoratifs. He creates collectives of objects: installations inhabited by chatty toasters, twisting fans, or unstable monochromes. Through cybernetic détournements, he explores the relationships between humans, machines, and living beings. Represented by Avant-Galerie Vossen, he co-founded the Éditions du respirateur in 2024, dedicated to experimental artistic publishing.

Valentine Prissette is a visual artist born in 1998, who graduated from the Fine Arts in Cergy in 2022. Her work revolves around installations combining textiles, wood and wax. At she creates fragments of interiors, uninhabited scenes of a uninhabited scenes of a theatre at a standstill. For Sleeping Pantings (solo show) she uses familiar forms to evoke the ambiguous tales
equivocal tales recited before going to sleep. Her latest series blurs notions of scale; inside the models, embroidered drawings become new protagonists.

Victor Pueyo (born in Paris in 1989) painter, trained in architetcture. Starting from what exists, from reality, or history of arts references, his work explores a series of tensions. Firstly, the tension of a fragile material – he paints with oil paint on cigarette paper – questioning the vulnerability of our representations. As the light touches the surface, it exposes the material, the gesture, and the image that has been painted. A tension is also created by what is hidden behind the appearance and tthee first sheeets, which we can feel but remains veiled. Through the fragment he tries to capture what surrounds him: sometimes a hand, a body, a vase, a horizon, a still life. His work has been exhibited in France and abroad.

Recycle Group was founded in 2008 by Andrey Blokhin and Georgii Kuznetsov.
Andrey Blokhin (born in 1987 in Krasnodar, Russia). He graduated from the highschool of the Krasnodar Academy of Industrial Arts and later from the Krasnodar Academy of Industrial Arts itself.
Georgy Kuznetsov (born in 1985 in Stavropol, Russia) graduated from the Stavropol Art College and from the Krasnodar Academy of Industrial Arts.
Concerned about the rising level of material waste as a byproduct of widespread consumerism, their works also draw upon classical Western traditions such as narrative relief carving and Christian iconography to compare contemporary times with other histories – social media with religion, corporate leaders with kings, and online existence with mausoleums.

Luca Resta was born in Seriate (Italy) in 1982 and lives and works in Paris.
His research is built from objects. He explores the social and cultural space he inhabits to refine a creative process linked to the practices of accumulation, reproduction and transformation of matter. 
As a form of contemporary allegory, he probes the vertigo of the series through endless collections of disposable objects, highlighting the compulsions, obsessive repetitions and accumulations that testify to our society's typical "visual claustrophobia".
His works challenge the notion of repetition. Through a continuous exercise of re-education to the obvious, his works confront us with our cultural reference and articulate the very idea of sculpture in relation to that of common form, transforming our daily lives into the experience of the almost invisible.

Mateo Revillo (born 1993 in Madrid, Spain) graduated in Fine Arts from the Ruskin School of Oxford University, then studied at the EHESS. At the junction between painting, sculpture and architecture, his work is carried from a primary dedication to the modernization of mural techniques. He develops a pictorial, material and intellectual research around the painting as an object of memory, to the notion of landscape as absence of the human.

Dimitri Robert-Rimsky (born in 1986 in Paris) is a visual artist and video maker. He studied at the Institut supérieur des arts de Toulouse and at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Brunswick in Germany, in the studio of Candice Breitz. He co-founded Rotolux sutdio in 2015. His work addresses issues that are intimately linked to political fictions, to the narratives that have been used to implement urban or architectural utopias, to forms of domestication of nature or to environmental transformations.

Madeleine Roger-Lacan (born in 1993 in Paris) graduated from the Ecole des Beaux Arts de Paris and studied at the Slade School of Fine Art in London. Her pictorial research is figurative and plays with the materiality of the "painting" object by borrowing from the abstract and sculptural vocabulary of modern and contemporary painting. Narrative, fantasy and the imaginary, on a background of popular culture, are the framework of the poetic universe she constructs.

Apolline Regent lives and works in Paris. Born in 2001, she graduated from the Beaux-Arts de Paris and Goldsmiths, University of London. Her practice is grounded in assemblage, accident, and a openness to reality, driven by a constant creative energy. Navigating between humor and tenderness, she develops experimental spaces that blend invented narratives with lived experiences. Deployed through installation, painting, drawing, and sculpture, her work gently mocks our overly serious relationship with language, authority, and the conventional affects we project onto them.

Anna Saint Pierre works on the memory of places through the collection and reuse of demolition materials. A textile designer who graduated from the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Décoratifs in 2016, she has been a doctor since 2022 in Sciences Arts Creation Research with a thesis entitled "Textilising the built memory". Between 2018 and 2021, her research was supported by the ANRT to be integrated into SCAU architecture, and was the subject of a residency at the Sèvres - Manufacture et Musée nationaux laboratory. In 2022, she was the winner of the Grand Prix de la création de la ville de Paris in emerging design, and produced two works of 1% artistic.

Sofía Salazar Rosales (born in Quito, Ecuador, in 1999 to Cuban-Ecuadorian parents) lives and works between Paris, France, and Quito, Ecuador. She completed the prestigious two-year residency program at De Ateliers in Amsterdam in 2025, following a Master’s degree with distinction from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris (ENSBA), where she studied under Tatiana Trouvé, Petrit Halilaj, and Álvaro Urbano. She also holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts with distinction from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Lyon.

Andy Santori, also known as Antoine Semoun, is a self-taught painter. His visual language is characterized by a vibrant, vivid color palette, brushstrokes, paint spills directly onto the canvas, and scratches resulting from rapid and vigorous gestures. He uses matière (substance/materiality) to make his paintings "alive"; thickness, layering, and frequent, sometimes impulsive, overpainting echo the multiple strata of the artist's references. Legendary figures populate his inner world. He demonstrates a keen awareness of fatalism, which can be seen in his fascination with artists who met tragic ends. The obsessive theme of the inevitable passage of time is omnipresent. One senses in his work the artist's urgency to create, to deliver his message, and to pursue his artistic dream to the fullest, despite life's trials. -Jennifer Flay

Edgar Sarin (b. 1989, Marseilles) has been noticed for his questioning of the exhibition space and his search for a primordial gesture. This makes him one of the most singular artists of his generation. His two preferred media, painting and sculpture, tend to unite in the exhibition space to become an “architectural experience”.
In 2023, two of the artist's works join the collections of the Centre Pompidou, Musée National d'Art Moderne. In 2024, Edgar Sarin inaugurates his first permanent public commission, a monumental bronze in the city of Le Havre. He was awarded the Académie des Beaux-Arts - Institut de France - Pierre Cardin prize for sculpture in 2024. He is the founder of La Méditerannée, a research group on the question of exhibitions.

Ugo Schildge (born in 1987 in Paris) graduated from the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2014. He developed a reflection on the articulation between image and movement and became interested in the cogwheel, a symbol of the industrial revolution, which emphasizes the power of mechanics. The material is also a central element of his work: for his color sets, the artist combines natural pigments, clay and plaster. In this combination, the interaction is always uncertain and surprising.

Elea Jeanne is a visual artist living and working in Paris. After studying visual arts in Canada, she joined the Kourtrajmé school and graduated in the Arts and Images section in 2020 under the direction of Ladj Ly and the artist JR. Her work was exhibited at the Palais de Tokyo during the exhibition "Jusqu'ici tout va bien" in 2020 organized by Hugo Vitrani, Matthieu Kassovitz, Ladj Ly and JR. She is one of the guest artists of the Festival in Cadaques 2020 and one of the winners of the PhotoBrussels Festival 2020 at the Hangar photo Art Center in Brussels. She has been invited by the Parcours Saint Germain and the Château Lacoste to exhibit her work in 2021. She is one of the 8 artists participating in the Saison-Croisée France-Portugal project launched by the French Institute with the Underdogs Gallery. She is one of the artists in the exhibition "FAIRE-CORPS" organized by Camille Bardin, winner of the AICA prize, at the Galerie Paris-B. She is a laureate of the Mentor Prize initiated by the SCAM and Freelens. Her first solo exhibition took place in 2022 at the CENTQUATRE Paris. She was part of the Guerlain x Paris + by Art Basel exhibition "Les Militantes" in 2022. Elea Jeanne is a finalist for the PhMuseum 2022 Women Photographers grant. She will conduct her first public intervention in 2023 at the initiative of the Grand Paris Express institution.

Richard Sears is an American pianist, composer, and producer currently based in Paris. His music is influenced by his experience playing alongside jazz musicians such as Tootie Heath, Billy Hart, Mark Turner, and Muhal Richard Abrahms. In a review of his previous recording, Disquiet, Le Figaro stated, "his young work is already the act of a singular musician." In summer of 2023, Richard will release "Appear to Fade," (Figureight Records, Brooklyn), a collection of short solo piano compositions and improvisations produced with magnetic tape-loops. Richard has presented

Hamid Shams is an Iranian artist based in Paris and a graduate of the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs. Working across performance, film, painting, and installation, his practice explores ritual, ideology, and the politics of the body, revisiting ancient Iranian ceremonies through contemporary and queer perspectives while addressing the violences of present life and systems of power.

Mahsan Shams (b. 1995, Tehran) is an independent curator, writer, and translator with a diverse background in linguistics and contemporary art. A researcher in philosophy and psychology, her explorations in these fields have profoundly influenced her curatorial practice, leading her to adopt a sociological approach to art. In her work, where theory meets practice, she creates exhibitions that examine the deep connections between society, psychology, and the individual, transforming these perspectives into thought-provoking exhibition narratives. She is the founder of The Lync, a platform featuring in-depth interviews with artists and industry experts, furthering her commitment to fostering dialogue within the art community.

Elene Shatberashvili is a Georgian artist based in Paris, who graduated from the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2019. Living between Paris and Tbilisi, she develops an experimental figurative painting that blends self-portraits, references to Georgia, and passages into geometric abstraction.
Her work, shown notably at Perrotin and at MO.CO. Montpellier Contemporain, explores questions of identity, displacement, and transformation. Informed by a reflection on the unpredictability of the pictorial gesture and the need to escape clichés, her practice invites a sensitive experience of change and belonging.

Photographer and video artist, Assaf Shoshan (born in 1973 in Jerusalem) questions a world where boundaries appear and disappear endlessly. His portraits and landscapes reveal an enigmatic atmosphere, shrouded in mystery. Between reality and fiction, Shoshan’s work has a poetic impact, it explores a fundamental human dimension: the quest for identity, the feeling of exile and belonging.

Iuliia Skromnaya is a multidisciplinary artist. In her practice, she often works with handmade processes and explores visual art and craft through the lens of contemporary internet folklore. In her works, she explores themes such as everyday life, internet culture, nostalgia, and femininity.

Mathilde Soares-Pereira is a Franco-Portuguese artist and director.
She is a graduate of the Beaux-Arts de Paris and the Conservatoire d'art dramatique des Halles.
Mathilde creates bridges between art and life. Through her work, she takes controversial subjects and makes them funny and offbeat, bringing a lightness through a pop, dreamlike aesthetic. Her work is rooted in sociological reflection, questioning the relationship between men and women and the power dynamics that ensue. She plays with gender clichés in a bid to deconstruct the norms of our patriarchal society.
She won several awards, including the Prix Thaddaeus Ropac and the Prix Canson. Mathilde has presented her work internationally, from Agnès b.'s Galerie du Jour, to New York's Independent Film Festival, to Tokyo's Spiral Gallery.

Isadora Soares Belletti (b. 1995, Belo Horizonte) lives and works in Paris. She studied cinema and social communication at FAAP in São Paulo before moving to Paris, where she attended the Beaux-Arts de Paris, graduating with honors (DNSAP) in 2024.
Isadora’s practice spans film, installation, and text, weaving connections between the personal and the political, particularly through the lens of displacement in its migratory and emotional forms. Conceiving film as a sculptural medium, she thinks beyond the screen to create a dialogue with the surrounding space. This research extends into an exploration of materiality itself utilizing elements sensitive to light and time that serve not only as tools for projection but as poetic carriers of memory, loss, and transformation.

Tobias Spichtig (b. 1982, Luzern) is a Swiss painter, sculptor and accasional musician. He currently lives and works in Zürich and Berlin. His paintings, sculptures and performances evolve around mystical aspects of the everyday, through personal and fictional narratives. Spichtig’s work spans figuration to abstraction where iconic, the decadence of subculture and nature play central roles. Recent exhibitions include solo shows at Kunsthalle Basel, "Everything No one ever wanted", Tao Art Space, Tai Pei, "Its beautiful when the spirits arrive", the Swiss Institute, New York, "Good OK Great Fantastic Perfect Grand Thank You" and KW Institute for Contemporary Art, "Die Matratzen", Berlin; and Centre d'Art Contemporain– La Synagogue, Delme; "Love and Die", among others.

Siméon Starck (born in Strasbourg in 1990) is a self-taught designer. He was trained on international building sites alongside architects and heritage-focused companies, where he developed his appreciation for form, material, and craftsmanship. In 2022, he founded the design studio elmire. He designs and creates modular pieces with minimal lines and unique assemblies. Questioning materials, repurposing their uses, and provoking the unexpected, he enjoys starting with constraints to better play with the rules.

After studying architecture in Lima, Pier Stockholm obtained a Master's degree in Plastic Arts at the University of São Paulo (USP), where he lived for five years before moving to Paris to follow the “La Seine” post-graduate program on a scholarship from the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris (ENSBA). His solo and group shows include Paço das Artes in São Paulo, Vleeshal in Middleburg, Casino Luxembourg, Espace Paul Ricard and La Galerie des Galeries in Paris. He has benefited from several artist residencies, including SOART in Carinthia, Austria, the Cité des Arts in Paris, KNUA in Seoul and NID in Ahmedabad, India. His book “The Weight of References” was published by ONESTAR PRESS in 2014. Next April, he will take part in the group exhibition Vertigo at Villa Carmignac on the island of Porquerolles.

Studio K gathers 12 artists around protean practices involving the body.
 In parallel to their practices as visual artists, choreographers, dancers, singers, craftsmen, painters, these artists work together on performance and live shows.
Artists : Crème Soleil (Tilhenn Klapper), Alexandre Fandard, Anne Corté, Compagnie So Far (Cassandre Munoz), Diane Chery, Felix Touzalin, Lucas Bouan, Myriam Jarmache, Saija Alexandra Kangasniemi, Bianca Millan, Nina Traub, Anaïs Barras

Loïs Szymczak was born in Paris in 1993. A high-level athlete in acrobatic diving, he entered the Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2018, embracing a dual identity as both artist and diver. He competed in the finals of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in the ten-meter synchronized platform diving event. His artistic practice exists at the intersection of art and sport. His work draws from this singular experience, questioning the boundaries between these two worlds that he seeks to unite.

Loïs views the act of diving with a fresh eye, highlighting its symbolic, philosophical, and spiritual dimensions. Through the prism of his discipline, he examines our relationship with competition, questioning the notions of ranking and scoring that shaped his upbringing and identity.

Emptiness, the fall, and water are found both in the diver’s performances and in his visual works, where he seeks to move beyond sporting function to sublime the gesture and return to its essence.

Lou-Justin Tailhades is an independent curator, art critic, and poet. His research focuses on the literary dimension of contemporary art, from the titling of artworks to fiction within the exhibition space. Taking poetry as a starting point, his work explores the theoretical and practical possibilities of "poetic curating." He has organized exhibitions at the National Institute for Art History (INHA), the Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles, and the Monnaie de Paris. He has collaborated with the curatorial cooperative Radicants, was a curator-in-residence at Villa Dufraine in 2023, and was the 2024 recipient of the Perspectives curatoriales award from Carré sur Seine. He is also a member of the collective Futile.

Thomas Takada is a French artist, born in Japan in 1993, whose practice lies at the intersection of architecture, design and art. Against the backdrop of the climate crisis, he seeks to encourage a fresh, curious and innocent perspective on our physical environment. Aware of the dynamics of globalisation and the growing complexity of materials and production methods, he favours a local and hands-on approach. His work aims to be didactic, poetic and focused on the essentials.

After graduating from the ENSA Paris-Belleville, in 2025 he was awarded the Van Cleef & Arpels Grand Prix as well as the Visual Merchandising Prize awarded by Chanel for Au point calme d’un monde qui tourne ("At the calm point of a spinning world"), his first installation, presented as part of the Design Parade Toulon organised by the Villa Noailles.

Independent curator Anna Tardivel develops exhibition projects and supports artists in their practice. She explores the connections between contemporary creation and societal issues, new forms of writing, and collaborative practices.
In 2023, she co-wrote the program for the Ball Theater, the project representing France at the Venice Architecture Biennale. Until 2025, she served as Head of Programming at La Gaîté Lyrique. In June 2026, she is preparing the exhibition Le chant des mondes there as part of the Anticipation festival.

Sacha Teboul was born in 1995 in Paris. He graduated from the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris (2020, Burki studio) and from La Fémis (2023, directing). His films have been selected and awarded at numerous festivals (IndieLisboa, Busan, and Brive, among others), and his visual work has been presented in solo exhibitions (Galerie du Crous, Bateau-Lavoir) and group exhibitions (FRAC Normandie, Serpentine Gallery).
He is currently developing his first feature film, Parmi les Ruines, which received writing support from the CNC. He is among the artists selected for the upcoming Salon de Montrouge.

Maxime Testu (born in 1990 in Rouen) studied at the ENSBA in Lyon, at HEAD in Geneva and at the ESAD in Reims. He is originally an illustrator, but he also works with sculpture, often in metal or cast aluminum. He favors ancient engraving techniques, such as etching, which he updates, and has dedicated himself to coloring his graphic works.

Coming from the rural countryside of Austria, Philipp Timischl (b. 1989, Graz) is a Paris-based artist whose work examines hierarchies of class, taste, and power—particularly within the art world—through humor, irony, and self-awareness. Using LED video panels, mixed-media canvases, text, and found material, he creates works that often culminate in site-specific installations, reflecting on social mobility, exclusion, and the unspoken rules that govern access to culture.

Painter-sculptor, painter-photographer, Pablo Tomek is also a painter. This is what he reminds us by extending his series of paintings made with sponges, which borrow their subjects and their techniques from working-class practices, from the white of Meudon spread on the windows of construction sites, to the practice of erasing graffiti in the public space, with a karcher. Presented "elbow to elbow, like a frieze", Tomek reminds us of his attachment to these accidental writings. So many random and anonymous signs of the street, of which Brassaï said: "To engrave one's name, one's love, a date, on the wall of a building, this "vandalism" would not be explained by the only need of destruction. I see it rather as the survival instinct of all those who cannot erect pyramids and cathedrals to leave their name to posterity".

Rebecca Topakian (born in 1989 in Saint-Mandé) graduated from the Ecole de la photographie d’Arles. With a background in philosophy and geography, she questions notions of identity in her work. By exploring the in-betweens, the mythologies and fictions of identity, she consistently attempts to shed light on the crucial role it plays in our time. For her, identity is articulated in the relation between poetry, intimacy and politics.

Maya Inès Touam (born in 1988 in Paris), franco-algerian artist, has always extended her gaze and her curiosity to both sides of the Mediterranean Sea. Her first concerns involved the ambivalence of female power in the Arab world, rigorously seeking to escape any form of neo-Orientalism or post-colonialism. This cathartic period led to her current work, more rooted in universality and focused on the geographical, political and environmental crossroad of Africa.

Félix Touzalin is graduated from the Ecole Boulle in bronze turning and the Beaux-Arts of Paris in the dance/performance workshop of Emmanuelle Huynh. He associates his skills as a sculptor and metal craftsman with dance and body practices to create installations and performances. Holder of an Aggregation in Design and Art crafts, he also teaching in the metal workshop of the ENSAAMA.
His last performance Gallium, presented at POUSH, revolves around a metal lace that questions the vulnerability of matter and bodies. Soon, he will presented his last creation Horse Pill at the MUDAM (Contemporary Art Museum of Luxembourg), co-written with Tilhenn Klapper within their company crème soleil. The piece questions the legacy of our capitalist logics of land and body conquest.
Félix Touzalin has participated in numerous choreographic projects as a performer during his studies or independently with several artists. His individual and collective work has been exhibited in galleries, museums, theaters and festivals.

Nina Traub (born 1991) is a choreographer, dancer and multidisciplinary artist from Tel Aviv, currently living in Paris.
Trained from an early age in various dance establishments, Nina Traub graduated from the School of Visual Theatre in Jerusalem. She works with different materials, colours and textures to create the visual environment of her works. Nina Traub is interested in investigating movement through temperature, music, perspective and landscape, and examines the body from a sculptural and plastic point of view. Her stage works are accompanied by drawings, through which she attempts to understand and deepen her research.

u2p050 is an immersive creation studio at the crossroads of philosophy, art and technology. Through its digital creations, u2p050 attempts to build thought experiments that open up ways to question our contemporary world, and in particular its increasing digitalization. To do so, u2p050 mobilizes in its works experimental technologies such as AI, 3D modeling, hydrophonic sound or interactive video production software.

Julie Vacher (born in 1989 in France) graduated from Le Fresnoy- Studio National des Arts Contemporains and from Beaux-Arts de Lyon. She stages the processes of transformation at play in human and non-human relationships, between the living and their environments in an era where the physical and the virtual rub shoulders. The field of her experiments touches on the ecological imaginary, the sanitary fantasy or the mythology of the world of work.

Albina Vakhitova (born in 1995 in Khabarovsk, Russia) is an artist, performer, choreographer, and movement director based in Paris. She graduated in Art History from the Moscow State Academic Art Institute V.I. Surikova and founded her dance company “SAAD” in 2020. Albina has participated in prestigious events like the 6th Moscow Biennale and the 2nd Triennial of Russian Contemporary Art, collaborating with renowned institutions such as MMOMA, Garage Museum, GES-2, and Institut Français. She has worked with notable artists and choreographers, including Claudia Castellucci and Kirill Serebrennikov. Albina’s artistic approach is characterized by a unique blend of choreography, intuitive improvisation, and live art. She explores themes of performative transformation and cultural bricolage, drawing inspiration from elements such as dynamic sculpture, psychological reflection, and childlike innocence. Her company “SAAD” brings together over 30 artists from diverse backgrounds, focusing on artistic innovation and collaboration.

Pablo Valbuena develops art projects and research focused on space, time and perception. Born in
Spain and based in Toulouse, in the south of France.
His practice explores the overlap of the actual and the virtual, the generation of mental spaces by the
observer, the dissolution of boundaries between real and perceived, the bonds connecting space and
time, the primacy of subjective experience as a phenomenological tool to stimulate reflection and the
use of light and sound as prime matter.
These ideas are developed contextually and materialised in projects that are a direct response to the
perceptual qualities, physical conditions and surrounding influences of a certain location or space.
The resulting works have taken place in museums and private institutions, biennials and galleries in
the form of exhibitions, site-specific commissions, large-scale public interventions and more recently
live performances throughout Europe, Asia and America. Pablo has also addressed these topics in
academic contexts through artist talks and invited professorships in universities and cultural
institutions.

Nils Vandevenne is a painter, graduate of the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, he obtained his DNA at the Villa Arson. In his work, rather than painting, Nils Vandevenne seeks to de-paint, he chooses to remove it through a process that acts as a revelation. When he alters the surface, all the stratifications of the object's former life emerge. In 2020, he won a call for projects launched by the Ministry of Culture, and with Rayan Yasmineh, he created a series of murals for the same ministry. In 2022 he was named winner of the Maurice Colin-Lefranc prize as part of the Fondation de France's awards at the Beaux Arts de Paris. In October he was resident at Hangar Y in Meudon in collaboration with Artagon and Art Explora. He lives in Paris and works at POUSH in Aubervilliers.

Trained at the Caen School of Fine Arts, Charlotte van Kemmel is best known for her drawings, although she also creates sculptures and films.
Whilst her delicate art is deliberately figurative, the subjects are not always immediately recognisable. She enjoys capturing reality as she perceives it on social media, on the radio and whilst cycling around Paris, as well as the reality she experiences through her intensive practice of Hatha Yoga. Gouache, which is quicker, more direct, delicate and inexpensive, allows her to maintain an accessible and modest practice and to work with speed and freedom. As a colourist, she works with vivid, contrasting and intense palettes. Her use of colour, watercolour, ink and gouache in particular, allows her to move quite naturally towards painting, which, for several years now, has been a field of experimentation for her. She is always exploring; there is no predefined plan. Her drawing is imbued with the spirit of abstraction: she works with form, mass, empty and full spaces, whilst at the same time seeking to construct a narrative. Both occur simultaneously, in a state of constant tension. She believes she is seeking the enigma and allowing her unconscious to emerge. Just like Hatha Yoga, her painting is a tool for emancipation.

Francoise Vanneraud (born in 1984, in Nantes) is a multidisciplinary artist, working between Paris and Madrid. Her work explores the territory as a scene of life, the landscape is a fundamental part of it, a strong argument to help the viewer reflect on his place in the world, the meaning of life and the relationships we establish in this existential journey with the rest of mortals, men and women made of the same material, although marked by borders that separate and unite.

After studying law in Paris and cinema in New York, Dune Varela (born in 1976) dedicated herself to dedicated herself to silver photography as the starting point for a field of investigation and questioning of investigations and questionings on the iconography of the ruin and the collapse. Interweaving different temporalities, from the ancient to the contemporary, she elaborates a speculative archaeology where the image, printed on fragments of marble, ceramic or concrete, changes in its turn into a vestige. She then extends the field of her research to video and cinema.

Evita Vasiļjeva (b. 1985, Riga) is an artist and educator based between Riga and Paris. Working across outdoor sculpture, site-specific installations, and sensory environments, she transforms disregarded materials and architectural fragments into new forms with reimagined functions. Her practice explores tensions between history and future, decay and renewal, weaving together memory, dreaming and space. Recent highlights include the Baltic Triennial (2021), the Lyon Biennial (2022), and Manifesta (2026).

Felipe Vasquez (born in Cali, Colombia) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Paris. His practice focuses on performance, photography, installation, sound/vocal works, poetry, dance, and gastronomy. He studies the relationship between humanity and the natural world, spirituality, interspecies dynamics, the alarming conditions of our environment, and the social parameters of marginalization. He obtained a BFA from SVA in New York in 2016. In 2020, he graduated from the Beaux-Arts de Paris where he worked in the studios of Emmanuelle Huynh, Alvaro Urbano, Petrit Halilaj, and Angelica Mesiti.

Louis Verret (born 1988 in Paris) studied at Central Saint Martins in London. He graduated in 2012. His practice is multidisciplinary and variable: from the writing of a book presented as a happening (Le goût de l'aspirine), he moves on to an installation work composed of the remnants of a child's bedroom (La naissance de A.), to the literary criticism of the work of a pornographic actress (Adriana), to the study of the poetic charge of the book object via poetry and watercolor painting (Aussi:). He is currently engaged in the writing of a new body of work centered around passion and soccer.

Allan Villavicencio’s (Mexico, 1987) practice develops the notion of a “metabolic painting” where temporalities and formal layers overlap. Working with fragmented and recycled canvases, he cultivates a visual language shaped by anthropomorphism and sensory correspondences. The surface becomes a pictorial skin connecting corporeality, landscape, and architecture. Allan Villavicencio has exhibited in institutions and galleries including Museo Tamayo, Museo Carrillo Gil, Museo El Eco, Galería Karen Huber (Mexico) ; Friedman Benda (New York) ; Cité des Arts de Montmartre, Galerie Mitterrand (Paris) ; and Dirimart (Istanbul).

Born in 1986 in Washington DC, Marie de Villepin grew up in the United States and India. In 2005 she settled in New York and later in Los Angeles, where she developed various music projects before devoting herself entirely to painting. After participating in several group exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles and Beijing, she had her first solo exhibition "New Creatures" in 2019, marking her return to Paris. After an exhibition at Galerie Charraudeau entitled "The Lost Weekend" in 2022, she was sponsored by Anselm Kiefer to participate in the Prix Marin. Her last solo exhibition "Murmurations" can be viewed till March 2023 at Villepin Gallery in Hong Kong. Her work, which focuses on oil painting, deeply resonating with her time, oscillates between figuration and abstraction.

Leila Vilmouth, a visual artist born in 1999 in Paris. She graduated with highest honors from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in 2024, from the Janssens, Berrada & Echard studio. In 2019, she participated in Espaces de réflexions at the Spiral Wacoal Art Center in Tokyo; in 2020 in 100% L’EXPO – sortie d’école at the Grande Halle de la Villette; in 2022 at Musashino Art University in Tokyo and at Galerie Jousse in Paris; in 2023 at Galerie Air de Paris; in 2025 at Verksmidjan Art Center in Iceland; and in the ASA residency at HFBK.

Ivan Volkov works with such media as sculpture, painting, graphics, and also carries out actions that later exist in the form of photographic documentation. In his artistic practice, the artist reflects on the problems of the precariat: a socially unsettled stratum of society that does not have full guaranteed employment. It is the representatives of this class who are most often the main characters of fictional scenes in which their daily life is recreated. However, Volkov does not simply transfer what he sees to canvas, fabric or drawing paper; his typical technique is to bring a single situation to the point of absurdity by replacing familiar realities with diametrically opposed ones. Moreover, the laconicism of the artistic language helps to fit all the paradoxical components into a single organic canvas."

From anticipation to raw reality, Jesse Wallace's (b. 1991) work is based on a porosity of the lived and fantasized worlds and assumes the position of the artist as a trickster in these different settings. He approaches the questions of image in touch with those of sculpture. While he seeks to extract the photo from its traditional format and detach it from the plane of the wall, his sculptures that he makes offer them a new framework capable of contextualizing or diverting them. While experimenting in both mediums simultaneously for the telling of his own stories, Jesse Wallace continues to spill over his workspace everywhere by inviting elements from the studio into the exhibition.

Katarzyna Wiesiolek (born 1990 in Nowogard, Poland) lives and works in Paris. She graduated from ENSBA in 2018. Neither reportage, nor fiction, nor testimony, her drawings restore emotions. Because they are born from her memory, her works often directly resonate with her personal life, drawing from a fundamentally intimate space of contemplation, which is her own and which makes her richness.

Under the name Xolo Cuintle, Valentin Vie Binet (1996) and Romy Texier (1995) form an artistic duo with complementary practices, through installation and spatiotemporal immersion. With stylistic concerns that seem similar to those of Duke Jean Des Esseintes (the protagonist of the novel À rebours by Joris-Karl Huysmans), or simply jealous of his decadence, the duo builds inhabitable or inhabited spaces, on the edge of the dream and simulacrum. These spaces are marked by an undefinable temporality and anchored in a domesticity that seems deserted, always awaiting something. Between furniture and sculpture, scenery and intimate interior, their constructions are complex and meticulous structures, where furnishings can be sculptures, pedestals or backdrops. In this intimate architecture, objects live peacefully, ideally placed according to their eyes.

Kai Yoda (b. 1985, Tokyo; lives and works between Paris, Tokyo, and Berlin) studied environmental information at Keio University before completing an MFA in Photography and Moving Image at the Royal College of Art, London. From 2015 to 2025, he formed the duo Ittah Yoda with Virginie Ittah, developing a practice centered on multiplicity, symbiosis, and ecology.
Since 2025, his work brings together painting, sculpture, and performative elements to create immersive, sensorial environments shaped by ideas of origin, transformation, and collectivity. His exhibitions function as evolving landscapes where images, objects, and gestures interact, inviting fluid, embodied experiences rather than fixed narratives. Drawing on references from prehistoric life and food practices to wearable forms and scenography, his work approaches exhibition-making as a shared, relational space.
Upcoming solo exhibitions include Bremond Capela (Paris), Parcel (Tokyo), and Daiwa Foundation (London). Recent solo shows have been presented at ROH (Jakarta), Jérôme Poggi Gallery (Paris), and the Centre International d’Art et du Paysage de l’Île de Vassivière. His work is held in major public collections including FRAC des Pays de la Loire, FRAC Artothèque Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Château La Coste, Sigg Art Foundation, Misk Foundation, and the Tumurun Museum.

Born in 1990, Jisoo Yoo is a South Korean artist and graduate of ENSAPC - Ecole nationale supérieure d'arts de Paris Cergy and Le Fresnoy - Studio national des arts contemporains. Through a varied practice combining drawing, installation and performance, she develops a universe based on the notions of fragility and uncertainty that intrude on our everyday perceptions. She reconstitutes familiar spaces that are fragile, unstable and ephemeral, making them appear and disappear by moving them around different places, or by trying to inhabit these ephemeral and fragile spaces to explore the notion of momentary identities. She has won the ADAGP 2023 Digital Art Video Art Revelation Prize, the 2022 Jury Prize at the 18th Champigny Biennial of Contemporary Art, and the FoRTE (Fonds Régional pour les Talents Émergents) grant. Her work has been shown in a number of venues in Paris and the surrounding region, including Le Centquatre, La Villette, Fondation EDF, Les Abattoirs (Toulouse), Les Magasins généraux (Pantin) and Les Tanneries - Centre d'art contemporain.

Mengzhi Zheng is a visual artist. His practice lies at the intersection of sculpture, installation, drawing, and architecture, and is grounded in the use of found materials conceived as drawings in volume. His visions of space and dreams of architecture, positioned between function and utopia, emerge from protocols shaped by context, tools, and working situations, and unfold both in the studio and in public space. His work explores notions of habitat, transformation, and the relationship to the environment.

Alexandre Zhu, of Chinese origin, was born in Paris in 1993 where he shared his childhood with Shanghai. His drawings are made with charcoal, an age-old technique that allows him to question the growing mutations of urban environments. Through the use of fragments, figurative forms are diverted: detached from any environment, they are revealed at the junction of an abstract universe. He won the Pierre David-Weill drawing prize in 2021 at the Académie des Beaux-Arts, the Dauphine prize in 2022, and participated in the last Artpress Biennial in Montpellier (MOCO & Musée Fabre).

Kyvèli Zoi is a painter based between Athens and Paris. Influenced by her international background, Kyvèli draws inspiration from the roots of traditional music, history and social struggle. Her vision and understanding of the world take form in oneiric scenes that are constructed to highlight the value of the details that make the ordinary, extraordinary. Through figuration, Kyvèli composes an amplified theatricality that proposes glimpses into the spiritual connection between human communities and the broader natural environment. Kyvèli has exhibited in numerous group and solo exhibitions internationally, in Europe, the United States and Asia. Her collaborators span from galleries and institutions, to film directors and designer brands. Since 2022 she is an awarded member of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artworks Artist Fellowship. Kyvèli is also the founder of KYAN, a residency program in Athens.