artists studio

The workshop comes alive to the rhythm of five emerging artists: Théo Zerbib, Jeanne Saluzzo, Koré Lechat-Ménard, Elisa Laugier-Martinez and Louis Gaumont.
Come and step into their world, chat with them and discover their creations.

LOUIS GAUMONT
Louis Gaumont's pictorial practice is structured around modular and evolving series, conceived as visual fields or montages rather than isolated paintings. He depicts contemporary infrastructures—energy, industrial, and agricultural—and the technologies that silently organize our lives, from solar power plants to mechanized fields. His painting acts as a tool for creating distance, revealing the material, historical, and temporal layers of the productive world. The series, which accompanies and structures his approach, thus becomes the means of evoking production processes, where form and subject are intimately intertwined.

ELISA LAUGIER MARTINEZ
According to an unknown but highly reliable source, Elisa Laugier was drawing even before she was born. Trained at the Beaux-Arts, she developed a body of work centered on line, somewhere between observational ink drawing and free expression. Her characters, created on walls, various surfaces, or as three-dimensional cutouts, interact with architecture, adapting to it or striving to break free. Her world blends bold lines, colors, and imaginative compositions in a constant quest for movement and freedom.

KORE LECHAT MENARD
Koré Lechat-Ménard lives and works between Bordeaux and Limoges. Trained in fashion design, visual arts, and then sculpture, she has developed a practice centered on gesture, repetition, and the slow transformation of matter. Through textiles, ceramics, drawing, and printmaking, she explores the tensions between protocol and variation, stability and mutation. The fold, essential in her work, becomes a means of bringing forth organic forms and unintentional images, oscillating between detail and whole, presence and disappearance. Her practice thus questions the body, forms, and fabrication processes, while offering a different way of seeing and creating.

JEANNE SALUZZO
Trained in Fine Arts, Modern Literature, and Theatre Arts and Techniques, Jeanne Saluzzo develops a painting style attentive to the transformations of perception and the relationships between bodies, landscapes, and perception. Through series where water, light, and the interplay of shadows alter forms and blur points of reference, she explores spaces in flux, between appearance and disappearance. Her work invites a sensory experience of the visible, where the gaze shifts and discovers subtle or invisible dimensions of reality.

THEO ZERBIB
Théo Zerbib creates bas-reliefs that blend painting, sculpture, and various materials, producing works that blur the lines between two and three dimensions, slightly overflowing the frame. Like a stage director, he composes scenes by affixing elements to the canvas before intervening with paint, which unifies the whole, introduces light, and blurs the boundaries between image and reality, between artwork and "living work," as Jean Fautrier termed it. Through his series *Les Précaires* and *Les Agglo-mérations*, he explores contemporary themes such as the Anthropocene, precariousness, waste, and the place of humanity in urbanized landscapes, conveying a gaze that is both fascinated and troubled by the current world and the possibilities of painting.