The exhibition “A la Volée” presents the works of Mouna Bakouli, Armentia Siard-Brochard, and Johan Christ-Bertrand, graduates of Villa Arson and winners of the Young Creation Prize.
In 2009, Christian Estrosi and the artist Bernar Venet established the Young Creation Prize for the city of Nice. This prize is intended for graduates of the art school of Villa Arson (Nice) and offers genuine support to these emerging artists. Upon receiving this prize, exhibitions are organized to highlight the works and their creators.
The Grande Halle du 109 thus becomes the venue for this joint exhibition. “A la volée” celebrates Nice’s artistic youth and inaugurates the unique universe of the laureates.
Three Artists, Three Universes
From “Lost Objects” to “Quarter Bodies” through “Jojo’s Bagatelle,” this exhibition is the product of an artistic universe as varied as it is multifaceted. Each work reflects the developing artistic practice of its creator.
The desire to highlight the diversity of society’s effects on “our bodies” through drawing and sculpture at Mouna Boukani. Winner of the Young Creation Prize in 2018 and a graduate of Villa Arson the same year, she lives and works in Nice. Johan Christ-Bernard is also a graduate of Villa Arson since 2018 and a winner of the Venet Foundation Prize. From Nice to Marseille, he enjoys playing with the boundary between the real and the virtual in his works. The perspective, through video and sculpture, of our relationship to space is a key element of Armentia Siard-Brochard’s work. She lives and works between Cherbourg and Paris, and is a former student of the National School of Architecture of Brittany and Villa Arson. She received the Venet Foundation Prize in 2019.
Thus, in the industrial setting of the 109, with free admission, we question our relationship to time and space.
Delphine Rossignol
