EXHIBITION of the 2025 Reiffers Art Prize

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Reiffers Art Center
30, rue des Acacias
75017 Paris

Dates
From April 16 to May 10, 2025
Tuesday - Saturday / 11am – 7pm

1000 MILLIARDS D’IMAGES

The fourth exhibition of the Reiffers Art Initiatives Prize brings together five emerging artists from the contemporary scene: Caroline Poggi & Jonathan Vinel, Anhar Salem, Jean-Vincent Simonet, and Nanténé Traoré.
The image is their raw material, their playground for experimenting with new forms and imagining alternative types of narratives. Whether photographic or video-based, virtual or real, found on social media or created ex nihilo, this visual matter is transformed in their hands, hybridized and rearranged, unafraid to venture into the strange and uncanny to jolt us from our stupor in the face of the endless deluge of a thousand billion images that flood our daily lives.

WITH THE SUPPORT OF MazarineGroup
SCENOGRAPHY La Mode en Images

Exhibition view of “1000 milliards d’images”, 2025

Anhar Salem, Jean-Vincent Simonet, Nanténé Traoré, Caroline Poggi et Jonathan Vinel

In the films of Caroline Poggi & Jonathan Vinel, 3D animation merges with live action. Their “impure” cinema resists classification and tonal boundaries—ranging from absurdity to extreme violence, from cynicism to naivety. The photographs of Jean-Vincent Simonet, meanwhile, blur the lines of their origin: hand-painted by the artist or created by artificial intelligence? With him, the image regains its plasticity and seems to seek a renewed aura, reconciled with the 21st century. Anhar Salem, on her part, embraces those images that show too much, omnipresent on social networks and in continuous flow. She questions their power in our societies, their influence on our lifestyles and collective imaginations. Finally, with Nanténé Traoré, the photographic print is transferred onto velvet, giving it a mysterious, shifting materiality. The image seems to vanish, to move toward abstraction. Could it be that the image is more powerful when it doesn’t show?

"The members of the Reiffers Art Initiatives artistic committee have chosen to reward the work of Anhar Salem, a young artist who draws her raw material from her personal experience of social media and the flow of images available online." — Paul-Emmanuel Reiffers

EXHIBITION of the 2025 Reiffers Art Prize

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