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Antoine Larrera
Antoine Larrera (born in 1992 in Paris) projects on the canvas (de)constructions of reality caught on the spot. His sets are made of representations or photographs that are digitally distorted, made abstract by manipulations on computer software. His creative process resembles those distorting mirrors that turn a known body into something strange. In his paintings, the eye could detect familiar objects, recognized spaces where Antoine places bodies from another dimension.
Vincent Laval
The work of Vincent Laval (born in 1991 in Gouvieux) is above all that of an artist-walker. If this one materializes physically by sculptures and photographs, the essence is drawn from the attentive observation of the wild through walks in the nature. Mainly in the heart of the forest, because it gathers an immense variety of living and non-living elements, he is in search of markers of balance or, on the contrary, of imbalance of these elements.
Théo Leclercq et Camille Viallet
Camille Viallet and Théo Leclercq are French designers based in Paris. After graduating from Esad de Reims, they opened there eponym studio in 2016. They draw objects, furnitures, textiles and spaces with a curiosity for new creative context. Their practice explores different production systems, working both with industry and on a more local scale. In 2018, their research project « La Cité » was awarded the public prize at Design Parade, at villa Noailles. Besides their own practice, they also work as project assistant for Inga Sempé (Camille) and Robert Stadler (Théo).
Anais Lelièvre
Anaïs Lelièvre (1982) has a DNSEP and a PhD. Based on experiences of territories, her drawings restore transversal dynamics and range from ceramics to monumental installations. According to a contextual approach, his work is developed in residencies in France and abroad (Iceland, Brazil, Switzerland, Canada, Portugal, Saudi Arabia...). His works can be found in the collections of the FRAC Picardie, the MASC Museum in Sables d'Olonne, and the Jenisch Museum in Switzerland.
Le Massi
Le Massi is a Canadian visual artist, musician, and actor, who graduated from Concordia University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts, with his major in photography. He is part of two artistic duos – CubeAndre and ejs.lm. He is also one of the founding members of the Montreal-based music group Human Human. His photographs combine elements of poetry, travel, and spontaneity. His work also seeks to connect themes such as tourism, social identity, and cultural sites.
Noémie Lettoli
Noémie Lettoli (born in 1993 in the Paris region) graduated from the Beaux-Arts de Paris. Her artistic practice focuses on interactive installations and scenography. Her work, drawing on memory and imagination, continually questions space and its limits. Her approach is based on experimenting with perception. In her installations, she pays particular attention to the present environment and to its harmony, through light and minimalist forms.
Thibaut Lipski
Thibaut Lipski (Born in Toulouse in 1989) is an object designer who questions the ordinary typology of everyday artifacts. Common objects such as a garbage can or a broom are then given new plastic horizons. Thibaut adds a sculptural dimension to the mute objects of our environment and questions the relationship between form and function.
Juan Ignacio Lopez
Born in 1990 in Buenos Aires Argentina, he grew up in Bolivia and then moved to France for his studies, he obtained his DNSEP with congratulations of the jury at the ESAD of REIMS. Currently resident at Poush manifesto. Juan Ignacio Lopez arrived in France at the age of 18. After such a radical change of scenery, Ignacio tries by all means to recompose his daily life through painting. Often dealing with subjects related to time, memory and perception. Beyond the attentional aspect of his aesthetics, he follows an organic principle in all his creative steps. From the preparation of a parasitic matter to its taking on the support. Ignacio's creative process is articulated between his studio, the garden, memories, the exploration of potential spaces until the exhibition. During the hanging, he makes the piece interact with its light environment, this moment being an integral part of the process. Besides painting, he experiments in his studio-laboratory with different fermentation processes.
Claire Luna
Claire Luna is an art historian and Americanist (North America and Latin America). She is an exhibition curator and art critic. In addition to her interest in non-Western art scenes and those forgotten in history, she seeks to identify what she might identify as a trend or a subject in the contemporary world, often at the crossroads of different fields of study and above all at the mercy of meetings. She recently conceived La rencontre des eaux, a cycle of exhibitions, meetings and performances around water as a political and poetic subject (Cité Internationale des Arts & CNAP). Another important project was the traveling exhibition Sens-Fiction carried out by RF studio (Tripostal & Lieu Unique). She is interested in the idea of displacement - that of the gaze and that of the body - and particularly in wandering and drifting. She is currently working on what she calls the theory of stuttering, the concept of the space between and infiltration as a strategy of struggle or resistance. She is looking for the re-enchantment of our time through poetry, dream, belief or the sacred. Claire Luna is a member of AICA (International Association of Art Critics), CEA (Association Française des Commissaires d'Exposition), of the Jeunes Critiques d'Art collective, of the thinkers' office at POUSH and co-founder of the research laboratory l'Echo du vivant at CAC La traverse. She taught art theory at the University of Paris 8 and joined RADICANTS (2022), the curators' cooperative founded by Nicolas Bourriaud.
Lê Thiên Bảo
Lê Thiên Bảo divides her time between Ho Chi Minh City and Paris. Since 2010, her curatorial practice has been exploring the best ways to promote contemporary art in Southeast Asia by raising awareness and connecting artists and their community. After curating the first contemporary art centre in Vietnam (The Factory) from 2016 to 2019, she structured 'Nổ Cái Bùm', an artist-run art festival in 2020 and 2022. In France, she commissioned several exhibitions, notably with A2Z Art Gallery. In 2023, she co-founded BAQ Gallery in Paris with the aim of creating a dialogue between Southeast Asian and European art practices.
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Jehane Mahmoud
Jehane Mahmoud (born in 1988 in Paris) is a Franco- Egyptian artist, who graduated from the Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2016. She makes medium-format photographs of a generation that is free, diverse, wounded, but idealistic, in an era that feels like the end of the world. Exile, be it cultural, natural, physical, psychical, or political, is one of the major themes that haunts her work. The installations and photographic objects that she produces take the form of temples, odes, or dedications to the characters who inhabit her images, and more generally to all living things.
Jan Melka
The work and research of French-American artist Jan Melka (born in 1995 in Paris), are rooted in abstract expressionism. She creates her own fictions through the principle of reconstructed figures. The human form is destructured and the geometry of the curves is exacerbated. Imperfect features, inverted perspectives, visible mistakes, or corrupted materials are predominant themes in the artist’s work.
Sarah Mercadante
Sarah Mercadante (born in 1988) has a master’s degree in science and technique of exhibitions from the University of Paris 1 in 2013. She lives and works in Paris as a curator and art critic. She builds her research and experiments around collaborative work by placing active listening at the center of her approach. In March 2020 she invited a group of women artists interested in performance art to collectively reflect on an ecofeminist place to live and work.
Mathieu Merlet Briand
Mathieu Merlet Briand (born in 1990 in Saint-Germain-en- Laye) graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Paris in Product Design in 2013. He then continued his studies in a research cycle at EnsadLab. His projects are mainly about environmental issues. He uses big data as a medium. Through the algorithms he develops by recycling processes and analogies to nature, he shapes data flows to create tangible materializations.
Angelica Mesiti
Angelica Mesiti (born in 1976 in Sydney) works in the field of moving image installation, sound, performance, objects, and photography. She is interested in how culture is manifested through non-linguistic forms of communication, especially through vocabularies of sound and gesture. In 2019 she was Australia’s representative at the 58th Venice Biennale. Angelica Mesiti is represented by Anna Schwartz Gallery, Australia, and Galerie Allen, Paris.
Léa Mestres
In the work of Léa Mestres (born in 1992 in Paris), line drawing gives the imagination a field of unlimited possibilities: it is an incomplete sketch, without real information: no scale, color, material, or even perspective. It’s a liberating moment: the object evolves throughout the manufacturing process. An abstract line gives a general image, its interpretation is specific to each. This two-dimensional form has to be materialized and become an instinctive and personal object. During this modeling process, texture, finish, or color appear. At this moment, drawing and volume split to give life to functional sculptures.
Esther Michaud
Esther Michaud explores the principles of mutation and metamorphosis, she is interested in the formative process of organic entities and reinvents the language of plants. Her manipulations give birth to hybrid beings that question the limits of nature's biological emancipation and its future in the face of the impact of human intervention. She graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Paris in 2018.
Juliette Minchin
Born in 1992, Juliette Minchin is a visual artist living in Paris where she works in sculpture, installation, video and drawing. A graduate in scenography from the Ecole Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs and the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, Juliette Minchin has had numerous exhibitions in France and abroad such as the BIS Biennial (Saint-Paul de Vence), Sans Relâche (Monnaie de Paris), the HOOP Biennial (Oosterhout in the Netherlands), Melting Chamber (Selfridges in London).
Desire Moheb Zandi
Desire Moheb-Zandi (born in 1990 in Berlin) integrates her cultural identity into large sculptural tapestries. Drawing from her childhood memories in Turkey, where she spent hours watching her mother weave on her loom. She blends traditional techniques with modern motifs and mediums. In addition to including different materials in her work, she turns the loom into a kind of analog computer, where the code is her pattern, and its manipulation creates optical resonances.
Sybil Montet
Sybil Montet is a french artist and CGI director. Her works explore occult potentials of emerging technologies, and their instrumentalization by systems of power. She also investigates synchronicities between computing and organic growth. The artist develops a fictional and critical ecosystem via CGI, sculpture and object, and approaches experimental uses of AI. Her work was presented in various publications such as Cura Magazine, Flash Art Italia, Studio Magazine or Numéro Berlin.
Lauren Moullet
Fascinated by the physical properties of her favorite materials such as fabric and clay, Lauren Moulle (Born in Paris in 1991) experiments with matter. It is through a series of experiments that the objects reveal themselves, generating textures that are seductive to the touch, inviting manipulation and disturbing our perception of the state of the material. Lauren creates immersive objects that immerse the user in a sensitive experience.
Lucien Murat
Lucien Murat (born in 1986 in Ploemeur) studied at Central Saint Martins in London. Through these unstructured collages, mixing cut-out tarpaulins and embossed patches, he invites us to follow the adventures of a character, Megathesis, hero of the mythology he has written and imagined. This epic tale, sometimes violent, allows us to explore and decode the post-internet world in which we live.
Julian Myron
Julian Myron (born in 1990 in Paris) graduated from the École supérieure d’art et de design in Reims. His work revolves around the use of the image as both a plastic and graphic tool. Through a process of selection, appropriation, and reappropriation of mass images collected on the Internet and various media, his work seeks to relate different themes such as effort, lack, obsession, and success through painting, drawing, sculpture, and publishing.
Benoit Ménard
Benoit Ménard graduated from the Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux. His practice mainly consists of installations that blend sculpture, 3D imaging, painting, video, electronic programming, and sound. Mostly in situ, they question various temporalities inherent to the dematerialization of the object, inside exhibition spaces that are invested in an immersive, total manner. These are organic territories where science fiction, marketing strategies, and New Age rituals live side by side.