Zoé Bernardi, Clémence Gbonon et Ruoxi Jin, 2024 graduates of Beaux-Arts de Paris, are winners of the “Mennour Emergence” program, launched to support young artists in the early stages of their careers, as part of the Mennour Institute. On this occasion, they will benefit from a group exhibition with three other prizewinners Matias Agafonovas, graduate of École des Arts Décoratifs - PSL, Amine Habki and Nicolas Lebeau, graduates of École Nationale Supérieure d'Arts de Paris-Cergy.
Born in 2000 and graduated in 2024, Zoé Bernardi explores community, intimacy, marginality and identity through her photographic and filmic projects, based on personal encounters and lived experience.
Born in 1994 and graduated in 2024, Clémence Gbonon's figurative and symbolic painting creates spaces that act as inner sanctuaries. These places, inhabited by human figures and domestic objects, embody a quest for transgression and transcendence.
Born in 1997 and graduated in 2024, Ruoxi Jin comes from a family oriented towards Buddhism, shamanism and animism. On the threshold between life and death, Ruoxi Jin's practice unfolds as a transcultural, trans-religious, even trans-species quest between the self and the Other.
Mennour Emergence is a project initiated by Jessy Mansuy, Managing Director of Mennour, and curated by Christian Alandete, Scientific Director of Mennour.
Winners' group exhibition
March 26 to May 10, 2025
Mennour - 5 rue du Pont de Lodi, Paris 6.
Photo credit : © Archives Mennour
