DISTANCE, PROXIMITY & CONNECTION

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Vir Andres Hera was born in Yauhquenehcan, Mexico, and is based in Savoie, France. 

The starting point of Vir's practice is the convergence of issues relating to immigration, exile, gender identity and multiple cultural belonging, whose diversity they strive to restore. Crossing personal narratives and pieces of history, his works make words, voices and languages heard that they associate with fragmented visual montages and enigmatic images, as a reflection of the plurality of perspectives and realities.

VAH's projects oscillating between video installations, moving image, sound and text. 

He questions the multiple relationships between reality and memory, vernacular and scholarly histories to invent emancipatory narratives.

He graduated from MOCO, du Fresnoy, Vir is currently doing a PhD at Montreal/Quebec, is a ESAAA Artist researcher and is in residence at Villa Velazquez, and is a Triangle-Asterides member of the Qalqalah Committee.

Hera was awarded the prize for young international artist at biennale de Lyon 2024.

www.virandreshera.com

Vincent Broquaire was born in Strasbourg, France, where he works and lives. 

He works with drawing, animation films, installations and interventions in public space.

His work expresses relationships between nature and new technologies, at the centre of which Man imposes himself as the great decision maker and manipulator. Landscape plays a driving role in his work, it is considered as a technical construction that Man transforms according to his needs and whims.
The artist thus builds a critical understanding, fed with irony and poetry, of Man and his insatiable need to control his environment. He analyses the mechanisms of a system allowing 'Man to play God.' A system translated by drawing, where the real and the fictional merge

www.vincentbroquaire.com  

Jenny Feal was born in Havana, Cuba, she lives and works in Paris, Lyon and Havana, Cuba.

Jenny facilities translate her personal experience of the Cuban history in poetic forms, sometimes symbolic and sometimes documentary forms, to testify the conditions of existence and the fragility of a daily life conditioned by the political regime of a country caught between Ideology and reality. Feal's works have been inspired by memories accumulated through encounters in her native island. The artist traveled a few years ago to Zaza, a small town in the province of Sancti Spiritus, Cuba. This is where her family began their history on the island, after leaving Spain in the early 20th century.

She studied at Instituto Superior de Arte, Havana (Cuba), École Supérieure d’Art et de Design Marseille and the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts de Lyon, France.

www.jennyfeal.fr

le Gentil Garçon lives and works in Lyon, France.

the Gentil Garçon will not reveal his face or his real name. This alter ego has become an entity in its own right for its creator. From the beginning, the artist  behind this pseudonym was inspired by Daft Punk to make his first smiling mask, halfway between 'a Playmobil and Astro, the little robot', he set out to make happenings in public places. The artist's double identity quickly proved a useful way to blur the lines: "It allows me to create works that are very different from each other, as if the Gentil Garçon were a collective.'

www.legentilgarcon.com

Jérémy Griffaud was born in Nice, France where he lives and works

He is a multimedia artist who explores the question of the spectator in hybrid realities, through devices that blend the virtual and the real. 

Using scanned watercolors, video game engines, virtual reality headsets and monumental projections, he creates immersive, interactive environments. uestions Man's relationship with Nature. 

www.jeremy-griffaud.fr

Çağla Erdoğan was born in Izmir, Turkey, she lives between Annecy & Marseille, France

Çağla is a multimedia artist, working across visual art, cinema and music. 

Intrigued by the notion of amateurism and intimacy in film, she began making experimental filmed diaries in 2020, with a pocket-sized digital camera. Exaggerated pixels in harmony with her acoustic and improvised soundtracks, she questions the triangular power dynamics between the female gaze, power and the camera.  A lover of moving images, after completing a year working at imagespassages, she moved to New York, to work with the Film-Maker's Cooperative. Çağla is currently working on her first feature film project 

JiSun LEE was born in Seoul, Korea, and now lives and works in Paris

A multimedia artist, JiSun explores ambulatory creative paths: video, drawing, object, photo, animation, music, text and installation. Time, memory, anonymity, the i, the fragment, the dot-line-plane, oblivion, home, and shadow are points of interest from his glossary of conceptions. Lee's practice is mainly disseminated through exhibitions, film and video festivals, art fairs, video-concerts between France and Korea, as well as in other countries in Europe and America. 'Mother and the Mother of Mother, My hands write, draw, cook, caress, tap, touch, and dance. I walk with my fingers, I travel within reach of my two hands, sometimes left-handed, sometimes right-handed, often ambidextrous.'

www.artleesijun.com

Moussa Sarr studied at the School of Fine Arts in Toulon, France

Moussa participated in the Salon d'Art contemporain de Montrouge and in Jeune création in 2008. In 2010, his work was selected for the FIAC, in the Cinéphémère program of the Fondation Ricard. Invited in 2011 by the BJCEM (Biennale des Jeunes Créateurs de l'Europe et de la Méditerranée, Thessaloniki, Greece), he presented his videos in 2012 at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston on the occasion of the 17th edition of the Annual Boston French Film Festival. Winner of the Prix Coup de Coeur Mécènes du Sud (Marseille) in 2012, His work are in collections; the Centre Pompidou (Paris), the Maison Européenne de la Photographie (Paris), the Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Arras, the FRAC PACA, the FNAC - Fond National d'Art Contemporain (Paris), the Collection Lambert (Avignon), the François Pinault Collection  and international private collections.

Emmanuel Tussore lives and works in the south of France.

Emmanuel considers his art to be an ongoing exploration of the existential questions of origin and identity, combined with a fluid understanding of being and an attention to forms of hybridity, métissage and transculturality that resist the structural mechanisms of territorial boundaries and social exclusions. The subjects of his work often arise from a form of personal unease that results from observing the destabilization of collective realities. In the face of numerous global crises, violations, and displacements, including the resulting ecological threats. He uses artistic practice to research and question the foundations of humanism. 

He has acquired international recognition, exhibiting in major artistic events such as the Havana Biennial (2019), the Cairo Biennial (2019) and the Dakar Biennial (2022). His work has also been presented during photography and film festivals including the Lagos Photo Festival (2016) and the Berlinale, Berlin International Film Festival (2017), and programmed in theaters such as Théâtre de la Ville de Paris (2019). 

www.emmanueltussore.com

Ludivine ZAMBON lives in Annemasse & Paris, France

Ludivine is a film-maker, photographer, visual artist and storyteller.

She draws on her personal history and the rural Alpine environment from which she grew to tell intimate stories through collective bodies. She conjures up myths, translates rituals and refers to the figure of the anti-hero to construct narratives bordering on the documentary. She plays with the lines between the staged and the spontaneous, placing the viewer in the interstice, in a suspended moment before the possible collapse.

Through her various formal researches, she creates a preservation, an archive of the territories in crisis where she is invited to explore. A formal anthropological study of nature and culture emerges from a process of collecting. Ludivine raises the question of their durability, and formulates the palpable tensions between the desire to preserve our world and the traces of a humanity that is changing it.

www.ludivinezambon.com