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.

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.

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.

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.

Samir Laghouati-Rashwan creates narratives from archives, using mediums such as film, photography, and sculpture. His work explores the politics of space and bodies, with a particular focus on representations of marginalized people in mediated cultural productions and institutional art spaces. With a tone oscillating between amusement and vulnerability, he retraces marginalized or forgotten stories and explores geographical displacement and linguistic reappropriation as testimony to systems of domination. His installations are characterized by fluorescent and acidic colors, creating situations that are both realistic and phantasmagorical.

Born in 1992, Samir Laghouati-Rashwan (lives and works in Marseille, FR) is a Franco-Moroccan-Egyptian artist. He graduated from the Institut National Supérieur d’Enseignement Artistique Marseille-Méditerranée - INSEAMM in 2020.
Laghouati-Rashwan has exhibited and performed internationally in galleries and institutions such as P21 Gallery (London, UK), Les Urbaines (Lausanne, CH), CAC Brétigny (Bretigny, FR), Kadist Foundation (Paris, FR), Magasins Généraux (Pantin, FR), Rencontres d’Arles (Arles, FR), Manifesta 13 Biennale (Marseille, FR), Triangle-Astérides (Marseille, FR), Art-O-Rama fair (Marseille, FR), and SISSI club (Marseille, FR). He is represented by the SISSI club (Marseille, FR).

Born in Montpellier, Valentin lives and works in Marseille. After completing a DUT in Materials Science and Engineering in Chambéry, he earned his DNA and then his DNSEP from the Beaux-Arts de Marseille in 2023. In 2021, he co-founded the collective “Mastic,” with which he actively works as a board member. Mastic brings together artists and art professionals with the aim of pooling intellectual, financial, and material resources for emerging cultural actors.