Summer exhibition

This summer exhibition brings together three artists who have already been presented within our programme: Austyn Taylor, Julien Calot, and Marine Gentil. Revisited here in a new constellation, their works open a shared dialogue around colour, emotion, and imagination across sculpture and painting.

Summer is approached not as a theme, but as a condition — a heightened clarity where perception feels more immediate, and where images carry affect with directness and ease. It is a moment of expansion and openness, in which forms seem more alive, and meaning is allowed to remain fluid.

Austyn Taylor’s sculptural animal figures balance humour with tenderness, offering a language of optimism grounded in vulnerability and care. Their presence is immediate and disarming, inviting closeness rather than distance, and suggesting that sincerity can operate as a form of strength.

Julien Calot’s paintings unfold as immersive, dense fields where abstraction and figuration coexist in constant motion. Built through rhythm and accumulation, they evoke shifting inner landscapes shaped by memory, time, and natural cycles —   environments that feel alive rather than fixed.

Marine Gentil introduces a vivid graphic register, drawing on illustration and modernist influences to construct vibrant compositions where colour drives structure and intuition shapes balance, creating images that feel both spontaneous and composed. 

Together, the three practices form a shared ecology of living forms — not unified by style or subject, but by a way of working in which image and feeling remain inseparable. Here, optimism operates less as sentiment than as method: a way of looking that allows summer to become a lens for attention — brighter, softer, and more connected.

SELECTED WORKS