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EDDO
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backstory
Born in Guadeloupe to a sibling group of eight, Eddo is a singular Creole painter, as much for his art as for his commitment.
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A free spirit, painter, watercolourist and illustrator, he currently lives and works in Aurillac, France, with his muse Béatrice, whom he met when he was a lodge keeper in the remote heights of Reunion Island. Other oceans, other volcanoes.
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Eddo doesn't paint ‘about’ the history of the Creoles and the Maroons, he literally embodies the spirit of running away and the instinct for freedom.
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He has no bank account, no telephone, and has even lived without a fixed address at times, driven by inspiration and spontaneity.
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For Eddo, ‘Running away is not enough’, you need a project, to free yourself from the chains, to live truly and fully, in harmony but also ready to defend yourself against the ‘chestnut hunters’, against the militias that chain dissidents and poets.
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No Social Networks
Cimarron isn't just yesterday, it's here and now, tomorrow and always. The only home is together, against everything that shackles us.
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Fuir ne suffit Jamais
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Shaman
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Traces
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Winter 2024-2025 Exhibition
Discover EDDO's work along the Winter 2024-2025 monography Exhibition "CIMARRON"
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Fanny FROMENT
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backstory
Schoolteacher by day, Fanny had no formal training in art and grew up constantly traveling, following her parents through Africa and surrounded by artists.
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She says Collage came to her naturally when she needed it most.
It acted as therapy and still allows her to explore the depths of her soul.
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It's a very personal meditation on themes that touch her: nature, femininity, eroticism, tribal and primitive arts, or the world of the Pre-Raphaelites.
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She loves the infinite creativity of collage, which allows for "absolutely anything". The chance encounter of images that might never have met.
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It's a real renaissance to be able to build something new from existing materials.
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Social
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Melancolie
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Spirituality
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Sans Titre
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Jolene
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Ginger
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Sleepwalker
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Hope
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Lingerie 2 Corsets
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Lingerie 3 Nuisette de Jour
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The Couch
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Directions
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Dame de Trefle
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Autumn 2024 Exhibition
Discover Fanny's work along the Autumn 2024 monography Exhibition "NOIR SAUMON"
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Yvelt Champagne
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backstory
Born in 1993 in Jacmel, Haiti, Yvelt Champagne is a young photographer with a spontaneous and lively eye. After studying cookery and NGO management, which were interrupted due to a lack of resources, he gradually discovered photography through mobile phones and then honed his visual vocabulary until he turned to professional imagery at the age of 25.
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Lulled by the simple poetry of the colours of Haitian sunsets, he tried his hand at model and landscape photography, all the while cultivating his affection for the Haitian people, their traditions, their colonial heritage, their superstitions and their simple, sincere joy despite the difficult odds. So he takes his camera to clubs and markets on the border with the Dominican Republic, where sharing is not always fair.
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He captures moments of suspended life during Voodoo ceremonies, possessions and the soothing calm of fishermen catching their nets before the tide comes in. His portraits of his community are both uncompromising and full of empathy. His frame is secure. His photos are raw and sincere, without the trappings of technicality or aestheticism.
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With a friend, he founded the ‘Perfection Image Group’ studio in Anse-à-Pitres, specialising in the production of photo and video reports, which he left to his partner when he married a Belgian woman in 2021, and finally arrived in Europe in 2023, directly in Brussels since the French embassy had refused him twice.
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As well as being a Creole and French speaker, he also discovered the culture shock of the ‘old continent’ and its saturated market, full of inherited codes and ungratefulness. In 2024, he went to the Non Peut-Être gallery and came across the work of the Forget-Me-Not project, the issues of other creolities in friction with European culture.
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He then decided to put together a body of photographs capable of describing his own identity, breaking with the clichés of the international press, and describing the Haitian country and its contemporary heritage with his own words, images, dreams and naivety. This is the project of the artist residency offered by the Objet Témoin foundation, the moment when intuitive work becomes a creative project.
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Caprice
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Et si
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Sans les Gangs
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February 2025 Exhibition
Discover YVELT's work along the February 2025 monography Exhibition "Haïti Au Delà des Gangs"
