Born in 1997, Claire Bouffay lives and works in Marseille. She is the laureate of the Prix SAM Villa Arson 2022.

Claire Bouffay develops a sculptural practice aimed at demystifying our systems of production and value through material work, the reinterpretation of objects and ancient techniques, and the creation of new narratives. She graduated from Villa Arson School of Art, where she received the Émergence ADIAF and Sam Art Villa Arson awards. In 2021, she was in residence at the Pistoletto Foundation in Piedmont, where she conducted research on metal extraction in the Alps and the relationships between the environment and human activity. She lives and works in Marseille.

A multifaceted artist, her work spans drawing, sculpture, writing, and installation. Driven by a desire to understand her personal history and the territories she inhabits, she feeds her research with the landscapes she encounters, as well as questions around generational transmission, knowledge, but also doubts and traumas. Based on this premise, she embarks on a process of collecting and assembling where she seeks to find a sensitivity in a material, a surface, or a form, connected by a common history to her own. Fiction allows her to give another meaning to the images she produces by diverting them. Through it, tensions between the materials and the symbolism she assigns to them are reflected. She examines the ambivalences that exist through her personal constructions and external influences, which she seeks to translate by bringing together opposing intentions.

Nina Boughanim was born in 1995 in Marseille, where she lives and works. An artist evolving in various fields from sculpture to drawing, writing, and installation. She trained in trompe-l’œil decor, studied for a few months at the Berlin Academy of Fine Arts, and graduated with honors from the École des Beaux-Arts de Marseille in 2022.

Sol Cattino, an artist originally from Marseille, lives and creates amidst the Mediterranean vibrancy of this city.

Supermarket, vernissage, lovers, Marseille-Athens, flowers… The titles of Sol Cattino’s paintings (a 2020 graduate of the École des Beaux-Arts de Marseille) are revealing, providing information about the origin of the depicted scenes while initiating immediate narratives.

Through a variety of formats (large framed canvases, free-standing, heart-shaped, or tending towards miniatures) and primarily using oil paint, the artist explores the major categories of art history: genre scenes, portraits, still lifes, with an uninhibited fluidity. This diversity of subjects matches the variety of her palette, which combines with a dynamic, sometimes tumultuous brushwork with pronounced expressionist influences.

Making constant back-and-forth movements between the outside world and what it comprises—friends, parties, nature—and the inside of her studio, Sol Cattino’s paintings are precious icons of our present time.

Bella Hunt & DDC is a Franco-American artist duo originally from Provence, who live and work in Marseille. The duo is a founding member of the Southway Studio collective. Bella Hunt studied at the École des Beaux-Arts de Marseille and art history in Rome. Dante di Calce is self-taught and comes from a family of craftsmen and artists.

The work of Bella Hunt & DDC is inspired by pre-industrial craftsmanship and resource economy. The duo’s sculptures and ceramics are historical fantasies and alternate histories, rooted in the ancient and medieval Mediterranean world, as well as in popular culture, ranging from fantasy to car tuning, from agriculture to industry, while avoiding any tendency towards classical purity. Bella Hunt & DDC instead turn to Mycenaean, Minoan, Hittite, Etruscan worlds, or the early Middle Ages, drawing inspiration from the forms and motifs of eras and civilizations often unknown to the general public.

Using ancient techniques and processes (stucco-limestone, ceramics…), the duo focuses on creating objects such as vases, benches, fountains, and fantastic, figurative statues with organic accents.

Michele Gabriele (he-they) (Fondi, LT, Italy) is an artist currently residing in Milan. His academic background includes a Master in Visual Arts from the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan, as well as a period of study at Paris 8 University. He is recognized mostly for his sculptures, paintings and performances that irreverently and personally question the stakes of the contemporary post-digital world. Gabriele’s work addresses the contrast between the digital and material worlds, exploring the feeling of inadequacy engendered by progressive visions of an eco-sustainable future against the disillusionment of their concrete realization. His work is deeply rooted in exploring the distances between representation and materiality, as well as the divergences between space and time relative to the observer.

Among his notable solo exhibitions are those EACC Espacio de Arte Contemporáneo de Castellón in the Comunitad Valenciana in 2023, MeetFactory in Prague in 2023, NAM Museum, Manifattura Tabacchi in Florence in 2022, Ashes/Ashes Gallery in New York in 2022, Fondazione Pini in Milan in 2016 and Kunstihoone Art All in Tallinn in 2015. He has also participated in various group exhibitions, such as at ICA Institute of Contemporary Art in Maine, Portland in 2024, FRAC Corsica in 2024, MAH Musée d’art et d’histoire in Geneve in 2023, International Objects in New York in 2023, the 16th Contemporary Art Biennale Alios in 2019, and at Et.Al Gallery in San Francisco in 2018.

Charlotte Gautier Van Tour :

Charlotte Gautier van Tour was born in 1989. She graduated with honors from the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris in 2014 and continued as a research student in the Reflective Interaction program at EnsadLab until 2017. After participating in several residencies in France and abroad, she currently lives and works in Marseille.
One of her main goals for the coming years is to address resilience and ecology in her installations. To achieve this, she develops her own bio-sourced materials, recycles various materials, and prioritizes local economy both for her personal consumption and her artistic production.

Jimmy Boury :

Jimmy Boury was born in 1986.

An artist working with light and sound, he grew up during the major technological inventions, from computers to the Minitel.

He holds a degree in electronics, specializing in aeronautics, but at the last minute, he turned down a job at a satellite ground station to explore the Aboriginal world and their rituals in Australia. Upon returning to France, he resumed his studies in sound engineering and began collaborating on sound creations with choreographer Thierry Thieu Niang, whom he has followed since 2013, designing his scenographies and lighting creations.

Since 2013, he has developed numerous lighting designs with artists in contemporary dance, theater, and opera. He stages performances combining sound and light with writers, actors, or even amateurs.

His artistic direction is influenced by technological discoveries and his research in electronics. His work ranges from building synthesizers that change with light intensity to creating objects that interact with humans via electrodes. The connection to organic materials has become crucial in his research, aiming to bridge the gap between technology and ecology, which are often seen as opposing forces.

Brandon Gercara :

Born in 1996, living and working in Réunion Island.
Brandon Gercara is a queer and decolonial activist and artist-researcher.
A graduate of the École Supérieure d’Art de La Réunion, their work focuses on a critical study of dynamics of domination in a post-colonial context. They develop a multidisciplinary practice that includes performance, photography, video, and installation.

As an associate artist with the Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain de La Réunion and the APILAB research laboratory / ESA Réunion, they are the founder of Requeer and the organizer of the LGBTQIA+ Visibility Marches in Réunion Island. In 2022, they were selected for the Salon de Montrouge and the Casablanca Biennale and were invited to present their research at Jeu de Paume Paris, as well as at CCCOD in Tours.

Ugo Watzi :

Ugo Woatzi is a queer visual artist with a background in sociology and contemporary photography, based in Brussels, Belgium. His research and practice explore the relationships between queer narratives, spatial utopias, and mystical nature. Woatzi’s works are conceived as extended forms of installations, navigating through photography, video, sculpture, sound, text, and performance. They imagine dreamlike and collective environments, drawing on memories, myths, and rituals to envision new possibilities.

Woatzi is currently a resident at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht (NL) and a professor at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague (NL). His works have been exhibited at Bozar (BE), Fomu (BE), Hazard Gallery (SA), Cité des Arts La Réunion (FR), Antwerp Art Weekend (BE), Musea Brugge (BE), Biennale Utopias Lahti (FI), Marres (NL), Spazju Kreattiv (MLT), Camera Turin (IT), De Brakke Grond (NL), and La Médiatine (BE).

Born in 1979, living and working in Paris, France, Laura Gozlan studied art and scenography at Aalto University, Scandinavian Design School (Helsinki), and EnsAD in Paris. She is a post-graduate student from Le Fresnoy — National Studio in Tourcoing (FR), where she studied with film directors Chantal Akerman and André S. Labarthe until 2007.

Her installations curate spaces for the performative experience of climax. She positions moments of theatrically articulated lust and satisfaction into a contrasting and intimate environment disrupted by dark moments, which create disarray in the social standards, and which refer to prosthetic aesthetics or senescence.

Since 2019, she has been directing a series of micro-fictions that chronicle the experiences and mutations of a recurring and perfectly solitary character that she performs: Mum. Navigating between cosmetics and politics, Mum is part of a genealogy of Monstruous-Feminine figures from the industrial genre film. Her operations and practices result from a deviant use of trans-humanist technologies, revealing their archaic, occult underside. Her failures lead her down the path of other, more oblique operations: the prolongation of youth operated by inhaling mummy vapors in a bong; self-reproduction operated by magical onanism; political maneuvering also operated by sexual magic and onanism.

She has taken part in group shows including «Possessed» curated by Vincent Honoré and Anya Harrison at Mo.Co. in Montpellier in 2021, and «When the Time Swirls» curated by Maija Rudovska at Futura in Prague in 2019. She recently presented a series of solo shows: «Onanism Sorcery» at 40MCube, Rennes (FR); «Pacify Your Lust» curated by Ema Hesterová and Denis Koserawski at A Promise of Kneropy, Bratislava (SK); «Foulplay» at Galerie Cetraro, Paris; «The Hierarchy of Lows» at Les Bains-Douches, Alençon (FR); «At Its Peak» at Les Limbes, Saint-Etienne (FR); and a double solo with Šimon Chovan at Holešovická Šachta in Prague: «The New Wounded». Her works are part of French public collections. She is represented by Galerie Valeria Cetraro in Paris.

Jean-Baptiste Janisset is a French artist living in Marseille. A graduate of the École des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, his work has been exhibited in Japan, the United Kingdom, Germany, Denmark, Belgium, Cameroon, and Benin. In France, he participated in the Prix de la Fondation Emerige and presented his first solo show at Galerie Alain Gutharc in Paris. He was then invited to Mo.Co Montpellier for the «Possédé.e.s» exhibition curated by Vincent Honoré, at the Abbaye Saint-Victor in Marseille for «Anima Mundi» orchestrated by Emmanuelle Luciani, at Fabbri-Schenker Project for a duo show in London, at Alain Gutharc again in Paris, and finally at Art-o-Rama for a solo show with Everyday Gallery.

In 2023, Jean-Baptiste was in residence at the Abbaye Royale de Fontevraud as well as in a two-month residency in Cameroon with Fraeme, and participated in the «Solaris» exhibition at Frac Sud curated by Muriel Enjalran.

Born in Seoul in 1996, Hyewon Mia LEE is a multidisciplinary Korean artist living and working in Paris. She expresses her ideas in three-dimensional forms, creating totems that evoke, in each of her works, a voice she wishes to listen to, a soul she seeks to soothe, or a memory she wants to preserve. By connecting these spiritual ideas to her life or indirect experiences, she creates pathways of connection—horizontal irregularities, symmetries that repeat and intertwine—encompassing an ecosystem of colors and materials in tension.

After earning a BA in animation from Chungkang College of Cultural Industries in Icheon, she pursued further studies at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, before obtaining her DNA from the École Nationale Supérieure d’Arts de Paris-Cergy, where she graduated with honors. In 2021, she founded the artistic project Pelle au Jardin, a collective of young international artists publishing fanzines and artist books, and organizing group exhibitions. Then, in 2023, she created the collective Ssister Outsider, which brings together multidisciplinary Korean artists based in Europe for discussions and exhibitions, notably at the Cité Internationale des Arts. She is a recipient of the 2024 Adam grant in partnership with Artagon.

Opale Mirman was born in Sète in 1995. She lives and works in Marseille. Through her practice of ceramics, painting, and performance, she creates images imbued with interconnected histories and mythologies. She seeks to reimagine objects and fantastical entities, altering their contours to unfold them into a dreamlike, sapphic, and fantastical narrative.
She graduated from the Beaux-Arts de Nantes in 2019. In 2021, she co-founded the Monstera collective alongside Delphine Dénéréaz, Bridget Low, and Léna Gayaud. She has recently exhibited at 100% L’Expo at La Villette and La Contemporaine in Nîmes.

Her work has been shown at Villa Noailles, Friche Belle de Mai, Le Bel Ordinaire art center, and with the Frac Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur Hors les Murs.

Carole Mousset is a multimedia artist who interrogates the body and our relationship to intimacy. She explores human interiority with a dreamlike and sometimes erotic approach.

Her work envisions the body as a fluid container in constant transformation. By presenting a subjective approach to the internal exploration of the body, she offers visions of reality distorted by our own fantasies. Inspired by what David Cronenberg calls «creative cancer» (adopting the perspective of disease by filming the body), she aims to represent the world through an organic lens. These new forms of dissections are part of what she refers to as the body’s gaze.

The use of bodily fluids in her work serves both a symbolic and formal purpose. Symbolically, it refers to the poetic aspect of bodily fluids in relation to the theory of humors (the idea that the body is filled with four different fluids corresponding to the four natural elements). It is also a way to discuss the body’s emancipation. Formally, it addresses technical questions: how to paint the inherent movement of fluids? How to represent viscous liquids and living matter?

She works and lives in Brussels.

Talita Otović was born in 1996. Graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, she is a sound artist, producer, performer and video artist. She uses a broad spectrum of musical tools and media such as video, installation and performance at the heart of her research. Within her questioning, the manipulation of sound as a narrative of multiple states of consciousness, but also as a way of inhabiting spaces and bodies, or amplifying them through recording and sound devices.

Her productions have been presented and performed in a wide range of institutions, clubs and self-managed venues: Le BAL, La Fondation Ricard, Les Halle de la Villette, La Medika, La Superette, Le Rex Club, La Station Gare des Mines, Le Subaru, L’Aconservatoire. She is also active in the Explity label with fellow artists KimberlaID and Karlfroye, as a duo with Paulo Gatabase in the performa- tive entity Otto+Gata, and on Station Station with her “Radioslavija” program devoted to ex-Yugoslav music.