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Around The Corner
Zena Van den Block
35 Rue Souverain Pont
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VMC gargouilles
Thomas Sindicas
31b Rue de la Cathédrale
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Kodomo No Kuni
Mey Semtati
18 Rue de l'Etuve
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The Faces Collection
Anna Safiatou Touré
16 Rue du Palais
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QuickSnap
Camille Poitevin
40 Rue Hors-Château
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P.O.F
Ronan Marret
75 Rue Hors-Château
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Belles récompenses
Mathilde Manka
159 Féronstrée
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Quatre Mains / Zonder Handen
Stephanie Lamoline
107 Féronstrée
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Anatomie du vivant / Life
Sophie Keraudren-Hartenberger
98 Rue de la Cathédrale
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À mon seul désir
Gral
32 Rue de la Cathédrale
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Rain Bow
Guillaume Gouerou
4 Rue de la Cathédrale
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Knock me !
Garage de Recherches Graphiques
85 Rue de la Cathédrale
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Double Bind
Jane Denizeau & Pauline Flajolet
1 Féronstrée
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Pie in the sky
Justine Corrijn
20 Rue de la Sirène
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Parking Cathédrale
Elias Cafmeyer
31a Rue de la Cathédrale
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Dés-Affectations
Elie Bolard
84 Féronstrée
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Kader / Cadre
Doris Boerman
29 Rue de l'Université
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Fatigue
Camille Bleker & Luna Pittau
3 Place des Déportés
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Si tu me vois
Aurélie Belair
56 Rue Saint-Gilles
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Terres battantes
Camille Barbet
100 Rue de la Cathédrale
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The end–promise on packaging
Pharaz Azimi
23 Rue Saint-Michel
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J’ai déclaré ma flamme
Artik
25 Rue Saint Paul
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my belongings
Celine Aernoudt
5 Rue Chéravoie
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CYBER KIDS
#11
Pol-Edouard
Curator: Bertrand Léonard
26714 Rue de la Sirène
Amazons, cyborgs, trolls, barbarians, mutants, fighters, Latino gangs, invaders, wrestlers, riders, zombies, etc. Pol-Edouard obsessively recycles all the B (even Z) series imagery of his youth into testosterone-boosted drawings. Hypertrophied muscles ooze, omnipresent weapons shine, light sources explode from everywhere, the brawl is never far away.
Pol-Edouard develops outrageous visuals without ever falling into an outdated mannerism. He pushes the limits of bad taste to the max, between hand-painted posters of Ghana and interpretations that are both naive and hyper-mastered, while avoiding parody or frontal fan art. His work stands precisely in this in-between. A sincere and nostalgic rendition of pure American entertainment products, from fight and shotguns video games to badass action films, science fiction or heroic fantasy. But never devoid of second degree.
The ultra-referenced images of the 1980s and 1990s, and their fantasized and apocalyptic visions of the near future, resonate strangely with our era. Bodies, nature, architecture, and technology seem to be pushed to their limits, at the limit of the grotesque. The ironic discrepancy between these obsolete retro-futuristic worlds and ours may make you smile at first glance. We then realize that reality has surpassed fiction (or has fiction inspired reality?) on many levels and that the warrior metaphor remains more relevant than ever.