RÉ-AMARRAGE – XENO-EXPOSITION / Retour de résidences

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’œuvre contemporaine en société (known as Françoise), at Péniche Pop for Cléo Totti, within Maison Hermès for Priscilla Beccari, and at Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles|Paris for Simon Mahungu in synergy with Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac, BnF - Bibliothèque nationale de France, and CREM - CNRS.

They inhabit the gallery space like an ephemeral laboratory giving visibility to their research.

While some of these residencies have resulted in the production of "stabilized" artworks to be discovered in our gallery, others have enabled participating artists to embark on exploratory research whose outcomes remain to be discovered.

The recent works of Adrien Degioanni immerse us alternately in an evocative sonic and sensory experience of silence and anonymous voices, tracing comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko and confronting the artist's latest sculptural investigations begun during his residency at Fondation Fiminco.

The exploration of fruitful intersections between art and science is likewise central to Nadia Guerroui's practice, whose installation echoing quantum physics resonates with investigations into invisible forces and the structure of the universe.

Céline Cuvelier and Cléo Totti investigate societal and environmental questions. Céline Cuvelier evokes the unthought realm of infanticide in a series of watercolors questioning how society confronts such human tragedies. In one of her new sculptures, she also questions the harsh conditions of juvenile detention centers and society's inadequate response. Cléo Totti, meanwhile, restores a voice to materials and plant life, inviting us to view the earth as a common good within a monumental installation that plunges us into a fictional and sonic landscape.

Harold Lechien recomposes forgotten family archives through a series of paintings whose digital collages highlight visual saturation caused by intensive internet use and the resulting unease.

Domestic space and the body take center stage with Priscilla Beccari through the presentation of a mysteriously agentive and anthropomorphic piece of furniture holding drawings that examine the female condition, power dynamics, social assignments, and the role of the body in private spaces.

As for Simon Mahungu's installation, developed during his residency at Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles|Paris, it represents the initial phase in a broader artistic research project dedicated to the circulation and reactivation of audio archives between Europe and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.