In residence at the Fondation Fiminco for Adrien Degioanni, at the Cité internationale des arts for Harold Lechien, Nadia Guerroui, Orso Caël and Céline Cuvelier in partnership with the association Françoise pour l'oeuvre contemporaine en société, known as Françoise, at the Péniche Pop for Cléo Totti, within the Maison Hermès for Priscilla Beccari, and at the Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles|Paris for Simon Mahungu in synergy with the Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac and BnF - Bibliothèque nationale de France and the CREM-CNRS.
They take over the gallery space as an ephemeral laboratory that makes their research visible.
While some of these residencies led to the production of "stabilized" works that will be on view in our gallery, others allowed those who carried them out to engage in a research effort whose stakes will be revealed.
Adrien Degioanni's recent works immerse us, in turn, in a sensory and sound experience of silence and anonymous voices, following the traces of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, and in the artist's latest sculptural research undertaken during his residency at the Fondation Fiminco.
The exploration of fruitful intersections between art and science is also at the heart of Nadia Guerroui's approach, whose installation, resonating with quantum physics, echoes research into invisible forces and the structure of the universe.
Céline Cuvelier and Cléo Totti explore societal and environmental issues.
Céline Cuvelier addresses the unthought of infanticide in a set of watercolors that questions the way society takes hold of these human tragedies. In one of her new sculptures, she also questions the harshness of conditions in juvenile detention centers and an inadequate societal response.
Cléo Totti, for her part, gives voice back to materials and plants and invites us to consider the earth as a common good in a monumental installation, immersing us in a fictional and sound landscape.
Harold Lechien reconstructs forgotten family archives through a series of paintings, whose digital montages highlight the visual saturation caused by intensive internet use and the unease that follows from it.
Place to the domestic universe and the body with Priscilla Beccari, through the presentation of a mysteriously agentive and anthropomorphic piece of furniture that conceals drawings questioning the condition of women, power relations, social assignments and the role of the body in private space.
As for Simon Mahungu's installation, developed during his residency at the Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles|Paris, it constituted the first stage in producing a broader research-creation project dedicated to the circulation and reactivation of sound archives between Europe and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.