Whether shaped, transformed, or left to its own expression, matter establishes a sensitive dialogue between touch and thought, between form and what it conceals.

Oscillating between surface and depth, strength and fragility, weight and lightness, the exhibition invites us to listen to the discreet voice of matter — to acknowledge, ultimately, its true significance

Chun Kwang Young (b. 1944, South Korea)
A leading figure in contemporary Korean art, Chun Kwang Young creates monumental reliefs from hand-tied pieces of Hanji paper. Each fragment carries a piece of history, text, or collective memory. His works, between sculpture and painting, explore the tension between tradition and modernity, order and chaos, nature and humanity.

Davidovici & Ctiborsky (b. 1983 & 1987, France)
The duo Davidovici & Ctiborsky fuse textiles, photography, and narrative. Thread, embroidery, and light become tools of memory, reconstruction, and introspection. Their works literally weave stories, blurring the boundaries between image and matter, intimate and universal.

Jiana Kim (b. 1972, South Korea)
Jiana Kim’s work sits between ceramics, sculpture, and painting. Through patient work with porcelain and oxides, she captures the fragility of life, light, and transformation. Each piece is delicate and radiant, appearing to breathe — suspended between solidity and disappearance.

Kim Hyun-Sik (b. 1965, South Korea)
At first glance, Kim Hyun-Sik’s works appear as vibrant monochromes, enhanced by epoxy resin that gives them body, translucency, and subtle nuance. On closer inspection, the surfaces reveal a hidden architecture: vertical grooves, varying depths, and tiny translucent spaces create a subtle chromatic echo that challenges perception. Through the repetitive treatment of these details, Hyun-Sik Kim reinterprets traditional Korean painting, introducing modernity, rhythm, and automatism while evoking an almost optical illusion.

Lucas Leffler (b. 1993, Belgium)
Lucas Leffler’s work questions the nature of the photographic image, through its production processes, techniques and history. His work is stimulated by a fascination for the materiality of photography and its bivalent nature close to alchemy, between the scientific and the magic dimension. He experiments with the photographic medium which he tends to expand to other forms like sculpture or installation. He takes inspiration in myths and facts, often linked to photography in order to reenact history and create new stories.

Luc Praet (b. 1966, Belgium)
Luc Praet examines artistic lineage by re-photographing older works, questioning how the past continues to shape the contemporary creator. Each image becomes an act of transmission and transformation: some appear sculpted in paper, while others reveal velvety, vibrant textures, hovering between the visible and the tactile. Captured in a single take and hand-processed afterwards, his photographs transcend mere reproduction to become unique works, where light and material engage in a quasi-pictorial dialogue.

Meekyoung Shin (b. 1967, South Korea)
As a “Soap Artist”, South Korean sculptor Shin Meekyoung uses soap to create historical relics or objects representative of our universal cultural heritage, underlining the fragility of this cultural heritage through the specificity of her material. Can a work of art withstand the test of relocation from one culture to another, from one era to another?

Nam Tchun-Mo (b. 1961, South Korea)
Nam Tchun-Mo’s work emerges from a dual impulse, emotional and conceptual. His paintings play with lines, points, and space, creating a poetic dialogue of fullness and emptiness, light and shadow, hollows and relief. Through this physical and chromatic simplicity, color and volume highlight the spaces and reveal the depth of thought behind these textured paintings. The intangible becomes tangible, offering the viewer an intuitive experience where matter and intuition intersect in every line.

Paola Pezzi (b. 1963, Italy)
Creativity, like life, is a constantly changing and evolving activity. It is this energy, this concept of vital flow, that guides Paola Pezzi’s trajectory, seeping into simple materials to breathe into them an existential vein. The idea of transformation is always present, the complicity between the material and the form created powerful. In an ironic and discreet but never silent game, Paola Pezzi offers amusing constructions that recall the primitive and spontaneous gestures of hypothetical children’s games… as if we were returning to the origin of everything.

Sunghong Min (b. 1972, South Korea)
To overlap refers to the act of folding one thing onto itself. This process, in its reflexivity and repetition, is one key to understanding the work of Sunghong Min. The artist’s practice develops through the rigorous application of a set of formal and material operations. These operations, such as molding, melting, shattering, and reconstructing, derive largely from the vocabulary of sculpture, arguably the central medium for his practice.