L'art et la vie et inversement presents the 26 artists who received the Diplôme National Supérieur d'Arts Plastiques from the Beaux-Arts de Paris with the Congratulations of the Jury in 2024.

Their works present a wide diversity of subjects, materials and intentions. The challenge of showing them together is to question what they express about a generation, and what they say about today's world.

What emerges from these works is the students' desire and way of constantly blending art and life. Their lives appear in their works in iconographic, thematic and narrative forms, and their works integrate their lifestyles. Through them, we see the fragility of the world and the threat it faces. There's nothing new in taking close friends and family members as models, but this approach has another meaning here: L'art et la vie et inversement reveals a flexible, fluid world in which reversals are possible, where landscapes speak of inner worlds, and intimate monologues speak of the world as it is.

These are horizons inspired by childhood visions, inhabited by singular forms of spirituality, or marked by the tragedies of history. Bodies are put to the test in pain, indeterminacy, hallucination, tenderness or malice. Gleaners in the city or in nature, these artists often appear inclined to help each other and to dialogue between the arts. Landscapes, and the human and non-human beings who populate them, are sometimes themselves the actors in a film. Characters emerge from another film to enter life. Other works deliver more domestic, intimate visions. For them, gentleness is sometimes a way of tackling the toughest subjects. A vision of a world in transformation, of an enigmatic present, these positions are based on the complexity of human beings. What emerges is a shared humanity, an effort to hold on to worlds on the verge of disappearing, stories sometimes beyond the realms of reality.

Curator: Anaël Pigeat

2024 Félicités : Gilad ASHERY, Örs BATMAZ, Abdelhak BENALLOU, Margot BERNARD, Zoé BERNARDI, Thomas BUSWELL, Anna DE CASTRO BARBOSA, Alessandro DI LORENZO, Hugo FRANCONERI, Clémence GBONON, Claire GITTON, Julien HEINTZ, Hélène JANICOT, Ruoxi JIN, Bahar KOCABEY, Joshua MERCHAN RODRIGUEZ, Sergiy PETLYUK, Alexandre PIMENTEL NITZSCHE CYSNE, Hajar SATARI NAJAFABADI, Anne SIMIN SHITRIT, Isadora SOARES BELLETTI, Hugo VIANA DA SILVA, Louise VO TAN, Libo WEI, Leïla WHITE-VILMOUTH, Alexandre YANG

Practical information

Wednesday, February 12, 2025 to Sunday, March 16, 2025
Wednesday to Sunday 1 pm - 7 pm, Thursday evening until 9 pm
Palais des Beaux-Arts
13 quai Malaquais, 75006 Paris
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