United by a singular vision of photography, the artists of the EeZ0 collective explore the image as a living material in constant transformation. Their practice is rooted in sensitive processes, ranging from collecting and hybridization to reuse and collaborations with plant life, minerals, and technology. EeZ0 operates as a laboratory where experimentation intertwines with an attentive ecological approach, rethinking our relationship to matter, living systems, and images.

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Afterglow investigates the lingering glows that remain after a source has disappeared, revealing the silent transformations of a world in flux. Light becomes a shared language between human and non-human entities, a space in which forms, materials, and interactions are redefined. Through works emerging from experimental photography, the exhibition sketches a future in the process of appearing, where new alliances between living beings, minerals, and technological artifacts take shape.

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Tomás combines sculpture and photography to question the materiality of the photographic image, and more specifically the possibility of creating images in volume, relief, or on irregular surfaces. The artist draws inspiration from the tension between the long process of sculptural shaping and the instantaneity of light that creates an image on a photosensitive surface, as well as from the contrast between the manual labor intrinsic to sculpture and the omnipresence of machines in photographic practice.

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Emilio Chiofalo conducts a tactile and sensory exploration of photography, approaching it as a transforming brain, a field of both physical and cerebral experimentation. He bends, burns, engraves, alters, and subverts traditional processes to bring forth forms in which images seem to emerge through friction between matter and perception. Here, light functions simultaneously as a tool, a symptom, and a creative force. Processes often pushed to the edge of destruction open spaces where representation slips toward abstraction and the image itself becomes a sculptural material.

After completing a Master’s degree in Photography at Paris VIII University, where she explored the notion of the fold, Julie Laporte began working as a printer-filter technician in 2016. Fascinated by photographic material, which she sculpts and experiments with daily, she draws the foundations of her artistic practice from both color theory and analog manipulations. This rich source of experimentation continually reshapes her understanding of images, turning her workplace into a privileged playground for creation.

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Based on collecting laboratory waste, her approach questions the future and afterlife of photographic materials. By reclaiming these silver-based elements, Julie creates collages and volumes that she pins or arranges in space to reveal what is usually made to disappear.

Benoît Lefeuvre is interested in the way memory is shaped by the passage of time. He visually translates this invisible movement that escapes human perception. Working with photosensitive materials whose chemical agents have decomposed naturally or through manipulation, he transforms and sculpts these supports of memory. The resulting abstractions evoke natural or dreamlike landscapes. They reference marine and geological worlds whose perspectives and scales disrupt our perception. These material manifestations reflect autonomous processes similar to the erosion of reefs by the sea.

Julie Rochereau focuses her research on notions of transformation and the entropic degradation of landscapes. This entropy becomes visual in a practice that questions the materiality of photographic and video images through sculptural installations that combine materials and forms. She is particularly interested in the artificialization of so-called “natural” environments and examines our relationship to wilderness through inspiration drawn from scientific inquiry.

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Transforming, layering, deteriorating, and redirecting are gestures that allow her to generate new forms from documents, whether drawn from archives or personal images. Chance and accidents frequently play a role in her work, becoming elements she deliberately embraces and redirects.