Exhibition: Metamorphoses, Chimeras and Other Fantasies

The exhibition ‘Metamorphoses, Chimeras and Other Fantasies’ presents a selection of contemporary artists from the gallery.
Each artist, in their own way, embarks on a journey into reveries, animal or human metamorphoses, playing with well-known myths such as those of Ovid in Valérie Belmokhtar’s work, or creating their own chimeras, as in Thibault Laget-Ro’s work ; evoking elements of their personal history, as in the work of Atsuko Ishii and Xecon Uddin. Samir M. Zoghby, an artist of art brut who passed away this year, has contributed a series of colourful and amusing drawings of anthropomorphic birds, caricatures of our contemporaries.
Véronique Pineau creates sculptures – like assembled pieces – from forgotten crockery, with an amused look at everyday life sublimated by this transformation. Violaine Laveaux, a new artist presented at the gallery, will show us a famous metamorphosis, that of the gaze. Or how Medusa petrifies us…

Valérie Belmokhtar, Persephone, 2025, drypoint engraving with freehand embroidery, 21×30 cm, unique signed piece

Atsuko Ishii, Our Nine Lives, 2025, colour etching, 24 x 30 cm, signed and limited edition to 31 prints

Thibault Laget-Ro, Bestiary, 2025, the pink grelion, linocut, 30 x 40 cm, single print

Violaine Laveaux, Blind Mirror, 2022–2023, saturated porcelain, rust juice and steel wool, height 30 cm, unique piece

Véronique Pineau, Le festin (The Feast), 2025, assemblage. Porcelain, slip and ceramic, height 55 x diameter 32 cm, unique piece

Xecon Uddin, Floating in a dream – 3, 2025, cyanotype and drawing – acrylic, pen and pencil on wood, 25 x 25 cm

Samir M. Zhogby, The Ocean Floor in Hawaii, 2020, felt-tip pen drawing on paper, 45 x 31 cm, signed and dated lower right