Les artistes
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Marilou Thiébault
Marilou Thiébault (born in 1992 in Vanves) is an art historian who graduated from the École du Louvre in 2016 and shares her activities between research, writing, and curation. She has collaborated on many exhibitions. She is now working on a long-term research on the artist Guy de Cointet from a biographical perspective. A first work on her performances led to the publication Guy de Cointet: Théâtre complet (Paraguay Press, 2017, with François Piron and Hugues Decointet).
Melchior de Tinguy
Melchior de Tinguy (born in 1986 in Bahrain) graduated from the master of fine arts of the International Center of Photography-Bard in New York. In his work, he explores
ephemeral feelings of melancholy, nostalgia, and rootlessness. His anthropomorphic and intimate sculptures focus on urbanization and the significant social, cultural, and psychological changes it entails. Through characters with architectural and grotesque qualities, Melchior creates a surreal atmosphere that often refers to the absurd worlds of Samuel Beckett.
Pierre Tostain
Pierre Tostain is a photographer focusing on still life photography. He creates a visual universe that combines simplicity, reelness and minimal poetry, thanks to a humble and precise set composition and with a sensitive use of ligtning.
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Loïc Untereiner
Loïc Untereiner is a graphic designer/art director born in 1989 in Strasbourg. He graduated with a DNSEP from the Institut supérieur des arts de Toulouse, with honors in 2014. He left to live in Montreal for 5 years, where he co-founded "Litige" with Qynn Schwaab, a handmade non-gendered clothing brand. He then decided to move to Hamburg, where he worked for a graphic design studio. He recently moved to Paris where he is now a freelance designer and creates various communication materials ranging from visual identity to editorial design, posters and websites for local and international clients. His cross-disciplinary approach to graphic design simultaneously responds to cultural and commercial commissions while leaving room for more personal projects.
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Sarah Valente
Sarah Valente (born in 1988 in Paris) is a French visual artist. Her quest: to show the invisible, the hidden sides of the world, the unknown aspects of nature as well as the infinite richness of forests and their inhabitants. Her favorite subject: the forest and the plant world, where biological intelligence and spiritual life are intertwined. Immersive installation, pictorialist photography, and sculpture are the main engines of her work.
Guillaume Valenti
After studying history and art history at the Sorbonne (Paris IV), Guillaume Valenti (born in 1987 in Évry) graduated from the Beaux-Arts de Paris with honors, after spending five years in the studio of painter Philippe Cognée. In his paintings, the frequent mises en abyme are expressed in the form of spaces elaborated from personal documents or images gleaned from the Internet. Each work becomes, in itself, a fiction, the representation of a mental space that says as much about purely pictorial issues as about the new condition of images.
Adrien Van Melle
Adrien Van Melle works with fiction as a material in its own right by intertwining writing, photography, painting, installation and video. Since 2017, he creates and evolves characters thought as an extension of himself, such a tree of plastic possibilities that the artist does not wish to abandon, or exclude. He then seizes them entirely to transform them into work and maintain their nature in becoming.
Thomas Van Reghem
Thomas Van Reghem (born in 1992 in Seine-Saint-Denis) graduated from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Paris. He works on the loss, the limits. His creations are conducive to reflection on decompositions, recompositions and movements of rebirth. He excavates the rubble by the choice of his materials and gets involved in his role of fragmentary collection of earth, ashes, carcasses, glass, debris, remains, hair, fleeting finds.
Victor Vaysse
Victor Vaysse (born in 1989 in Paris) graduated from Beaux-Arts de Paris. The questioning that runs through his practice is related to the recording, materiality and reception of the image. Gradually, a transdisciplinary practice has emerged, which has unfolded from his questioning as a photographer and which crystallizes in sculptures, in images, in digital installations.
Sergio Verastegui
Sergio Verastegui (born in 1981 in Lima, Peru) studied at the Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro, and at Villa Arson, Nice. His work is based on fragmentary writing, starting with sculptural forms, in a superposition of strata, meanings, and materials. Affirming a strong material presence, but also seeking conceptual rigor, his works must be considered as pieces of reality extracted from a world torn apart.
Florian Viel
After completing an exchange student program at CalArts (Los Angeles), Florian Viel (born in 1990 in Bayeux) graduated from the Ecole des Beaux-arts de Paris. In his work, he seeks out and compares images of the world of the tropics. Aware of their stereotypes, he assembles them, dissociates them, and makes them abstract in order to draw out their essence. He works on the identification of the tribe that Westerners have created from their fantasies about these distant places in their daily lives.
François & Pierre Voirin
François Voirin (born in 1986) has worked in finance and textile industry. Pierre Voirin (born in 1985) is an architect. The two brothers joined forces in 2019 after rehabilitating a 1788 farmhouse in the Northern Alps. This project brought together all the convictions dear to them: the rehabilitation of built heritage and architecture. This realization allowed the creation of the agency between Paris and Morzine with projects of rehabilitation and new constructions.
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Manon Wertenbroek
Manon Wertenbroek (born 1991 in Lausanne) obtained her Bachelor of Arts degree from the ECAL (Ecole Cantonale d'Art de Lausanne, Switzerland). Her work focuses on psychoanalytical themes as a vehicle to explore issues of introspection, identity, social interaction and emotion. She mixes abstract and figurative forms using various techniques such as sculpture, photography and installation to explore complex experiences of consciousness, sensation and behaviour such as archetypes, sexual desire or identity formation.
Wiktoria Wojciechowska
Wiktoria (born in 1991 in Lublin) graduated from the Warsaw School of Fine Arts. The design of installations and performative sculptures, traces, ephemeral prints question and reactivate our perception of nature and bodies. The works embrace an open and free idea of sculpture, where the boundary of the object and the body is indeterminate and exists through physical encounter and interaction. They invite the visitor to perform their own ritualistic re-enactment of our relationship to nature.
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Yixuan Xiao (肖懿轩)
Yixuan Xiao (肖懿轩) (born in 1993 in Suizhou, China) has been based in France since 2016. They studied at the Beaux-Arts de Paris and ENSP-Arles. Yixuan develops a transdisciplinary practice combining sculpture, performance, image, and text, exploring themes of identity, migration, and queerness. Their work unfolds around a practice of “translation” — an embodied process in which the body becomes a primary site of sensitive translation, a space of passage, language, and continuous evolution where memories, emotions, and desires for emancipation intertwine.
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Rayan Yasmineh
Born in 1996, lives and works in Paris. Represented by the Mor-Charpentier gallery. Rayan Yasmineh is a young painter, graduated with honors from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, he previously obtained his DNA during a 3-year course at the Villa Arson. It was during his studies that he was introduced to the postulates of modern Western painting and developed a series of reflections on the plane, line and color, as well as on the tests of perspective and ornament. Having grown up to the rhythm of back and forth between France and the Middle East, he draws from the registers of Persian miniature and Arab iconography in order to build an aesthetic dialogue around a multiple identity.
Assia Yaziame
Yaziame is a young Algerian artist photographer, who grew up in Montfermeil, France. Self-taught in her artistic practice, and graduated in psychology, she works with her mother's analog camera, and her father's VHS.
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Simon Zaborski
Simon Zaborski (born in 1989 in Toronto, Canada) studied at the Rosedale Heights School for the Arts of Toronto, and graduated from Concordia University in Montreal. He has developed part of his work in collaboration with the MAW Collective in Montreal.
Ziyue Zhou
Zhou Ziyue (born in 1989 in Xiapu, China) graduated from the Beaux-Arts de Lyon. Usually taking the form of installations in space, her works are composed of different mediums. This assemblage of fragments is always linked to the place in which she works. She questions the usual, gestures, the place of objects in space, trying to invent a kind of visual haiku, an unstable landscape.