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Alexandre Samson
Alexandre Samson (born in 1995 in Pontoise) studied fashion design at the École Duperré in Paris, and then joined the diplôme étudiant-entrepreneur at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers in Paris to develop his own label. He is the founder and artistic director of ASZPAK. The winner of the Prix Le carré pour l’Homme organized by Maison Hermès in partnership with the École Duperré and singled out for La qualité du dessin in 2017, he then developed a special bond with graphic design applied to
clothing.
Antoine Semoun
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
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.
Eden Sarna
Eden Sarna (born in 1988 in Jerusalem) graduated from the Department of Fine Arts of the Bezalel Academy of Art (Jerusalem) and from the New Genres Department of the SFAI (San Francisco Art Institute). Through his video installations, he addresses subjects such as ethics, violence, humour and “the observing eye”. His research and experiments focus on the relation between subtlety and acuity of oppressed feelings, while adopting a light-hearted approach.
Thibault Scemama de Gialluly
Thibault Scemama de Gialluly (born in 1987) writes an intimate counter-diary of the " potemkin " world in which we would be plunged, stuck between scratch games, postcards or negotiation seating plans wich he accelerates their " prophe-politic " speeche. Thibault realizes "official drafts", silk-screen paintings, drawings, collages that emerge redacted, moiré, scratched ... failed photocopies of our "diplomatic fictions" In the manner of a malfunctioning photocopier from which he removes copies stuck in between the cylinder.
Ugo Schildge
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 Schmitter
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
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
Élodie Seguin
Élodie Seguin (born in 1984 in Paris) studied at the Villa Arson and at the Beaux-Arts de Paris. Her practice involves painting, sculpture, drawing, and installation. Among her first statements, that of considering that “not everything can be shown everywhere” since the place appears at the same time as the piece it presents, the question of limits is posed, the one between the pieces, but also those of the common borders between the media and their possibility of prolonging each other.
Laura Sellies
Laura Sellies (born in 1991 in Grenoble) is a graduate of the Beaux-Arts de Lyon and of the master's degree in Literary Creation at the University of Paris 8. She defines her practice as collaborative - for her, art is a collective process, which is reflected and implemented by several people. Installative - she installs sculptures, people, images, sounds in space and time. Dramaturgical - these installations tell stories without saying them. Since 2010, she has been half of a duo with Amélie Giacomini.
Erwan Sene
Erwan Sene (Born in 1991, Paris) is an artist and a musician based in Paris. His work is based on a sculptural work that unfolds on several levels. Letting himself go on the slope of an imaginary everyday life as well as enigmatic stories, his practice reconsiders his own way of living and digesting the objects that surround him. He creates stagings with a multitude of materials, between baroque remanence and everyday surrealism, and addresses the themes of contamination, idiopathy and science fiction.
Marie Serruya
Marie Serruya (born in 1991 in Les Lilas) is a visual artist who represents human comedy through different artistic expressions. She began her professional career as an actress at the age of 17. Inspired by theater, masks and faces, her portraits modelled in various materials are the guiding thread of her work. Her approach is marked by her need to put the public in action through her works.
Ser Serpas
Ser Serpas (b. 1995, Los Angeles) lives and works between New York, Paris and Tbilisi. She has had solo exhibitions internationally, including at Swiss Institute, New York; LUMA Westbau, Zürich; Ludlow 38, New York; and Quinn Harrelson/Current Projects, Miami. Selected group exhibitions include SIREN (some poetics), Amant, New York; The Puppet Show, Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève,; Oxygen Biennial 2021 - Rites of Passage, Tbilisi; Dora Budor: Autoreduction, Progetto, Lecce; Ouverture, Pinault Collection, La Bourse de Commerce, Paris; and Made in LA 2020, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. She has published the following books: Guesthouse, Kona Books, Tbilisi (2021); Carman, Based on the Opera, König Books, London, UK (2018); Shade the King, Capricious, New York; amores perros, Publishing House, New York (both 2017). Serpas will release By the Highway, a book made in collaboration with Rafik Greiss with an essay by Dora Budor, published by Distanz, Berlin in 2023.
Marie Servas
Graduated in 2017 (ESAD Reims), Marie Servas researches environments and objects created by man and modified by nature. She calls for a « poetry of destruction » in her installations and sculptures, using shifting processes such as dyeing, waxing or oxidation. At the same time, she is developing an educational project: Camille et les autres... (Camille and the others...), which introduces students to the visual arts through the work of invisibilized women artists. She is also co-founder of FLOP, a game of exchange between artists as a pretext for exhibitions.
Hamid Shams
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
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
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.
Assaf Shoshan
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.
Chloé Silbano
Chloé Silbano (born in 1986 in Grasse) makes objects for particular uses. They are put into action, or staged they offer a pose for painting. She is a graduate of the Beaux-Arts de Paris and participated in the exhibition "Les félicités" at 104. She is a laureate of the Yishu8 Prize and is currently a guest artist at the CNES. She has exhibited at Gr_und (Berlin), the Fernet-Branca Foundation (Basel), Marlands (Sicily), La Box (La Réunion), l'Approche (Brussels), Musée de la Chasse, Pavillon Vendôme...
Alexandre Silberstein
Alexandre Silberstein (born in 1989 in Paris) creates performances where sculpture, music, and narration are mixed. His works, made of recycled paper and representing modular, nomadic, and compact forms, question our relationship to space. He stages plays in the middle of nature. For certain projects, he has fun creating games of chance, giving the spectators the role of actor.
Masha Silchenko
A graduate of the Dominique Figarella’s studio at the Beaux-Arts de Paris, Masha Silchenko previously studied at the Odessa Art College (Ukraine) and at Geidai – Tokyo University of the Arts, where she learned traditional ceramic techniques. Her work crosses and contrasts drawing, sculpture, and painting on canvas. Myths, beliefs, dreams, and nightmares are tamed by a sensitive and narrative interpretation.
Iuliia Skromnaya
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
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
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.