Elladj Lincy Deloumeaux was born in 1995 in Guadeloupe and lives in Nanterre. Lincy Deloumeaux's painting is particularly attached to heritage and symbolic images as well as to Afro-Caribbean spiritualities. As a painter of everyday life, he details the mythologies and iconographic representations of the West Indies in search of bridges with African history.
Ymane Chabi-Gara was born in 1986 in Paris. She lives and works in Boulogne. Through a series of self-portraits in which the artist represents herself as a Hikikomori, she explores the human condition, solitude and its different expressions, isolation and its universal character. Hikikomori is a phenomenon that appeared in Japan in the 1990s, most often affecting young adults and teenagers in a state of extreme and prolonged social isolation.
Ange Frédéric Koffi is a visual artist born in 1996 in Korhogo, Ivory Coast. Recently graduated from ECAL - Ecole cantonale d'art de Lausanne, a large part of his photographic work is articulated in installations that originate from the notion of displacement, circulation, and the way in which in West Africa the journey contains an essence of its own revealing a part of the everyday. In parallel, he is developing an activity as a furniture and textile designer.
Fanny Irina was born in 2000 in Bondy and lives in Paris. She is a student at the Beaux-Arts de Paris. Through a research made of painting, drawing and video, she tells reveries where hybrid characters and animals evolve. These moments out of time and space welcome groups of characters who embrace and sometimes imprison each other, close to an original state where the motif of the egg and the bird regularly recurs.
Katlego Tlabela is a South African artist born in 1993 in Pretoria. He lives and works in Pretoria. A graduate of the University of Cape Town's Fine Arts Department, he explores a wide variety of mediums. Engaged with political issues, he questions various South African social and political crises through his work. From his "New Rich" series, his paintings depict luxurious lifestyles praising the newly imagined and real black elite that he considers aspirational and achievable.
