DUO SHOW / ESPACE SHOWROOM
Opening reception on Saturday, March 15, from 4 PM to 9 PM.
ALEXIA CHEVROLLIER AND BENOIT LEFEUVRE
In parallel with the exhibition Le Miracle du Soleil, we are pleased to present a selection of works by Benoît Lefeuvre and Alexia Chevrollier.
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Both artists develop a practice that is attentive to the transformation of materials and the memory of forms. Alexia Chevrollier explores matter through sculpture, painting, and installation, playing with textures and the metamorphosis of elements. Benoît Lefeuvre, on the other hand, alters photosensitive surfaces to reveal abstract landscapes, oscillating between traces and erasures. Their shared approach focuses on phenomena of degradation, disappearance, and persistence. Through layers and sensitive experimentation, they question our perception of time and memory, inviting a poetic contemplation of the world’s transformations.
Alexia Chevrollier, born in 1989, is a graduate of the École Nationale Supérieure d’Art de Dijon and Paris-Sorbonne University in art theory research. Her work has been exhibited in several group and solo exhibitions in France (Centre Pompidou-Metz, Le Parc Saint Léger - Centre for Contemporary Art, ART-O-RAMA, Galerie Interface, La Cantine d’Art Contemporain...) and abroad (Les Brasseurs Art Contemporain, Centre Culturel Métaculture). The artist has also been a winner and finalist of several awards (winner of the Young Public Prize of CRAC 2018 and the Young Talents Côte-d’Or Prize 2013, finalist of the 2013 Contemporary Talents competition of the François Schneider Foundation...) and has participated in multiple research and creative residencies (La Villa Belleville, Light Cone...).
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Alexia Chevrollier is an artist who shapes new plastic and aesthetic territories around the notions of time, movement, and the history of matter. She develops work in sculpture, painting, video, and installation, constantly questioning our perceptions of materiality. The projects she creates also establish a dialogue between art and craftsmanship. Through the diversity of mediums she employs, Alexia Chevrollier collaborates with a wide range of French artisans, sometimes engaging with nearly extinct professions, such as that of the master charcoal maker.
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This exploration of gesture and craftsmanship is a way to circumvent an industrialized system, blending different worlds. She is fascinated by the organic nature of each element, but above all by the reaction of matter to the gestures of artisans, which she choreographs to accompany its potential transformations. In doing so, she opposes the modern linear conception of controlled craftsmanship and encourages experimentation.
Tiffany Bouelle, a Franco-Japanese artist, follows a meticulous process in which writing, drawing and line become acts of reclaiming body and spirit. Her painted noren - traditional Japanese curtains - are traversed like an invitation to travel, symbolizing the passage between two states of consciousness. Her work questions the notion of support and breaks free of the boundaries between painting, textile and sculpture. ​
Marion Flament draws inspiration from the materials, light and places that surround her to create installations, sculptures and images that transform our perception of time and space. Through trompe-l'œil and visual distortion, she reveals the strangeness of everyday life and highlights the memory of places by inscribing historical and architectural elements. In the Empreinte(s) exhibition, she presents a series of glazed ceramic rosaries created for La Samaritaine. Inspired by the building's Art Nouveau decor, her creepers embody the dialogue between craft and history.
