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Born in 1987, Boris Labbé is from the south-west of France and trained as an artist at the Beaux- Arts. Now an animator and video artist, he began his career as a draughtsman. After some ten years of artistic practice, he has remained a true artist ever since. But he has always been strongly influenced by drawing, which he sets in motion through animated film, video installation and mapping. Recently exhibited in Aix-en- Provence in an exhibition entitled "L'Infini turbulent" (Turbulent Infinity), a title borrowed from a book by Henri Michaux, Boris Labbé's work is a constant search for the way in which spaces are arranged at the heart of cycles, in the destruction and reconstruction of a dynamic specific to his work.

Manon Pellan is an artist who lives and works in the Paris region. A graduate of the Beaux-Arts in Rouen, she mainly uses graphite pencil on white paper, which she combines with her drawings, playing with detail, realism and framing. Her work touches on intimate subjects such as absence, emptiness and relationships with oneself and others.

Lara DEL AOR is an artist inhabited by her painting. The creative gesture is the manifestation of an extension of herself. She claims to have this desire to paint buried deep down in her soul. Itwastheexpressionof an inner need that just had to be given concrete expression through a medium. His works, felt and spontaneous, are given to us with a great sense of humour and generosity. She also talks about art, and what art brings her, with volubility, liveliness and great transparency. You can feel DEL AOR's genuine joy in creating.

Born in 1978, Cécile Beau lives and works between Paris and Le Havre. Morbihan. After graduating from the Beaux- Arts in Tarbes and Marseille, she completed her studies at Le Fresnoy, the national studio for contemporary arts in Tourcoing, from which she graduated in 2008. She has won numerous prizes and awards, including the Crédit Agricole prize at the Salon de Montrouge in 2011, and the Découverte prize awarded by the Friends of the Palais de Tokyo in 2012. Since then, she has taken part in a number of creative residencies and held numerous solo and group exhibitions in France and abroad, and her work has been acquired by institutional collections (FRAC).

Najia Mehadji is a French- Moroccan artist born in 1950. She now lives and works between Paris and Essaouira. She is a graduate of the Beaux-Arts in Paris, with a master's degree in visual arts and art history from Paris I and a degree in theatre from Paris VIII in the 1970s. Her practice began with performance art, followed by ink drawings on paper, before moving on to paint and, from 2010, large brushes. Her work has been regularly exhibited internationally, and features in the collections of many museums, including the Centre Pompidou and the Institut du Monde Arabe in France.

Originally y from Portugal, Vasco Mourão now lives and works in Barcelona. Trained as an architect, for some years now he has been devoting himself to artistic creation, while keeping the city and its motifs at the centre of his approach. From residencies in Japan, exhibitions in China and France, he explores urban space on a variety of media (metal, marble, paper), depicting cities by hand. he has lived in or travelled through. He has also published cartoons in publications such as The Washington Post and The New Yorker.

Catherine Gillet is a visual artist who graduated from ESAD in Orléans. She expresses herself mainly through engraving and drawing, but more recently also through volume creation. She has won several prizes and her career as an artist has been marked by many distinctions, such as the Lacourière prize she received in 2000, awarded by the Bibliothèque nationale de France for intaglio printmakers since 1979. Since the 1980s, she has exhibited regularly in galleries, art centres and fairs. Some of her work can be found in public collections in France and Japan.

Juli About was born in Avignon in 1974. She now lives and works in the south of France. She is a visual artist who specialises in creating in porcelain, she creates works of art and installations in which she tackles the question of the body, intimacy, our relationship with the world, fragility and connection. More recently, she has also been experimenting with embroidery, music and poetry. In 2021, she received an award from Beautiful Bizarre magazine. From festivals to galleries and exhibitions, she regularly exhibits in France and abroad.

Fabien Mérelle was born in 1981. He currently lives and works in Paris. between Paris and Tours. A 2006 graduate of the Beaux-Arts de Paris, he is also a former boarder at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Paris. Casa Velázquez in Madrid, and specialises in contemporary drawing. For some years, he has also experimented with volume installations, following the same aesthetic research as in drawing, on the question of realism and metaphor, self- portraiture and, more broadly, the human condition.

Born in France in 1988, Victoria Tanto is a graduate of the École des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, specialising in textile and material design. For several years, she worked for the set designers at Chanel, creating 1/50 or 1/100 scale models of the company's products. elements of vegetation that adorn the preparatory models for haute couture shows. At the same time, inspired by this high-precision work, she is developing her own artistic research, particularly in embroidery, which she is experimenting with in an approach marked by black and white and repetition.