Exhibition view 'Refresh' at Hatch in Paris, 2022. Photo: Michael Patault. Courtesy of the artist and HATCH.
Exhibition view 'Refresh' at Hatch in Paris, 2022. Photo: Michael Patault. Courtesy of the artist and HATCH.
Refresh
Group Show
Participating artists: Célia Boulesteix, Théophile Brient, Malù dalla Piccola, Alexandre Ferreira, Diego Garcia Lara, Julien Heintz, Victoire Inchauspé, Brieuc Maire, Aliha Thalien, Mia Vallance, Lingjun Yue
March 22 - 26, 2022
For it’s inaugural season, the exhibition Refresh will present the work of eleven artists at the beginning of their careers. Millennials and cosmopolitans, most of them work in France, others in England, Germany or Italy.
Conceived after visiting numerous studios and residencies, in addition to solo and group exhibitions focused on the emerging field, Refresh wishes to update and broaden the landscape often delineated around the young contemporary scene. This scene is characterized by a permanent effervescence and an abundance of fluctuating and diversified proposals that are both inclusive and connected to the global artistic community. This exhibition will allow it to be propelled towards the established circuits and to obtain a new visibility clearly claimed... and largely deserved.
The often fragmented aesthetics of the selected artists reveal a desire to explore new edges, to rethink traditional materials and techniques, and to foster cross-fertilization between different disciplines. There are many points of convergence within this generation that go beyond established paradigms to operate through the union of imagination, affect and intention.
By seizing traditional skills, such as casting or foundry, by inhabiting space and playing with volumes, they express their visions through a multidisciplinary practice. These marriages of instinct and plasticity offer a place of choice to a permanent shift, as seductive as it is disconcerting, which imposes an update - a "refresh" - of our interpretations.
Hatch
Exhibition view 'Refresh' at Hatch in Paris, 2022. Photo: Michael Patault. Courtesy of the artist and HATCH.
Malù dalla Piccola, 'Ampolle del senno perduto' 2021, variable size, gauze in resin and copper, variable. Photo: Michael Patault. Courtesy of the artist and HATCH.
Exhibition view 'Refresh' at Hatch in Paris, 2022. Photo: Michael Patault. Courtesy of the artist and HATCH.
Exhibition view 'Refresh' at Hatch in Paris, 2022. Photo: Michael Patault. Courtesy of the artist and HATCH.
Exhibition view 'Refresh' at Hatch in Paris, 2022. Photo: Michael Patault. Courtesy of the artist and HATCH.
Victoire Inchauspé, 'Bas relief' series, 2022, variable size, thistles in raw waxed bronze. Photo: Michael Patault. Courtesy of the artist and HATCH.
Exhibition view 'Refresh' at Hatch in Paris, 2022. Aliha Thalien, 'Un soleil bleu est-il un soleil froid ?' series. Photo: Michael Patault. Courtesy of the artist and HATCH.
Exhibition view 'Refresh' at Hatch in Paris, 2022. Brieuc Maire. Photo: Michael Patault. Courtesy of the artist and HATCH.
Exhibition view 'Refresh' at Hatch in Paris, 2022. Photo: Michael Patault. Courtesy of the artist and HATCH.
Exhibition view 'Refresh' at Hatch in Paris, 2022. Photo: Michael Patault. Courtesy of the artist and HATCH.
Lingjun Yue, "Après que le soleil se soit couché", 2021, color photograph, inkjet on paper - laminated on Dibond, 50 x 70 cm, 2/5. Photo: Michael Patault. Courtesy of the artist and HATCH.
Exhibition view 'Refresh' at Hatch in Paris, 2022. Photo: Michael Patault. Courtesy of the artist and HATCH.
Théophile Brient, "Compassion is the pillar of World Peace", 2019, about 20 x 15 x 15 cm, night lights, power strips, packaging. Photo: Michael Patault. Courtesy of the artist and HATCH.