Through three years spent in Chicago, FARIDA LE SUAVÉ (born in France in 1969) became familiar with the worship for American football. Fascinated by this great show and its accompanying codes, she set out on drawings and sculptures inspired by the equipment and the outfits reminiscent of warriors’ gear, along with the graphics and the colours (whites, blues, and reds on a green lawn backdrop). There, excess and muscular bodies bring to life the forces at play. With soft yet precise contours, helmets (Helmet) and masses of flesh are outlined, ready to merge into one another, wrapped in tricolour ribbons...

When asked about his relationship with sports, artist MARLON WOBST (born in Germany in 1980) insists on the absurdity of modern societies, where physical exercise is reduced to people practising a sport just to stay fit. In his works —paintings, sculptures, and wool felt tapestries—, the figures high jump, they pedal, they fall, and sometimes walk about hunched over as though taking part in some obscure ritual. The artist looks at these humans with tenderness as they strive and put themselves on display, sometimes verging on ridicule.

Human beings are nature and invisible threads connect all living things. LYNDI SALES (born in South Africa in 1973) has always been drawn to mysticism. This ancient practice aims at the intimate union betweenHumankind and the Divine. It allows an encounter between art, science, astronomy, and the mysterious. Cartography —both what it lists and what it chooses to conceal— fascinates the artist for similar reasons. From decompositions to recompositions, the collages of many fragments, sometimes maps, in delicateshades, overlap and embrace one another. Black moon rising refers to the dark side of the moon. A blackmoon guarantees a sensitive phase, rich in renewal, where magic forces double in strength and powerfullymanifest desires...

FEE KLEISS (born in Germany in 1984) works on the remnants of recent history: in an experimental, deconstructive, almost archaeological manner, she works on uncovering a network of connections between organic objects and manufactured ones. She dismantles, transforms, and establishes new connections until things lose their meaning and merge into something new. Fee Kleiss is fascinated by possible links. She looks for objects and waste in order to create a conversation between them; first as an attentive mediator, then as an almighty artistic director who decides, rejects, modifies, sets and narrates. Her creativity is immense and brings a new life in things that were cast aside, forgotten, lost. The slightest thing can make up a whole world. Mural installations are thus born —small still-lives, or more precisely, reanimated lives— along with paintings in an unsettling perspective, to which are being added volumes and salvaged objects. Most recently, a series of collages, partly made of semi-transparent materials, was created. The titles of these works refer to the chemical components of membranes —these interfaces between worlds…

The idea of permanent movement breathes through MIN JUNG-YEON’s (born in the Republic of Korea in 1979) work. Through her fascination for astronomy and contemporary quantum physics, as well as Zhuangzi’s (Chuang-tzu) ancient philosophy and his theories on energy flows, on the fullness and the void, the artist constantly brings into play different matters and shapes. Be it dynamic or static, both representative elements and random abstract liquid shapes interlock or face one another. Geological strata, organic surfaces, skins and feathers— they all speak about the world’s landscapes, about our own, and about all living things. With might and great delicacy, Min Jung-Yeon summons feelings and visions in a metaphorical universe where ambiguities, aches, and great beauties meet.