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Reiffers Art Center
30, rue des Acacias
75017 Paris
Dates
February 26 to March 28, 2026
Wednesday - Saturday / 1 p.m. - 7 p.m.
Free admission

The Living Room, an encounter with the young French contemporary scene, brings together a selection of pieces, paintings, and sculptures, as well as recently acquired works from the Reiffers Initiatives collection. Since its creation by Paul-Emmanuel Reiffers in 2021, Reiffers Initiatives has been supporting the emerging scene and cultural diversity. Its annual program, punctuated by a mentoring exhibition, an award, and permanent exhibitions of its collection, has contributed to the emergence of an exceptional new generation.

With: Han Bing, Clédia Fourniau, Clémence Gbonon, Dhewadi Hadjab, Leelee Kimmel, Wynnie Mynerva, Anhar Salem, Pol Taburet, Nanténé Traoré

Exhibition curator: Thibaut Wychowanok

PARTNER Mazarine Group

View of the exhibition “The Living Room,” 2026.

View of the exhibition “The Living Room,” 2026.

View of the exhibition “The Living Room,” 2026.

View of the exhibition “The Living Room,” 2026.

View of the exhibition “The Living Room,” 2026.

View of the exhibition “The Living Room,” 2026.

View of the exhibition “The Living Room,” 2026.

View of the exhibition “The Living Room,” 2026.

View of the exhibition “The Living Room,” 2026.

View of the exhibition “The Living Room,” 2026.

View of the exhibition “The Living Room,” 2026.

View of the exhibition “The Living Room,” 2026.

View of the exhibition “The Living Room,” 2026.

View of the exhibition “The Living Room,” 2026.

Han Bing, Clédia Fourniau, Clémence Gbonon, Dhewadi Hadjab, Leelee Kimmel, Wynnie Mynerva, Anhar Salem, Pol Taburet et Nanténé Traoré.

The exhibition invites visitors to discover their works in the spirit of a private collector's living room. Viewers are invited to take a seat, or lie down and let themselves be swept away by the multiplicity of realities that coexist despite a world that tends to separate them. In this space, which is alive as the title suggests, unique visions coexist, illustrating the richness of perspectives of this new generation of contemporary artists.

THE LIVING ROOM
Pol Taburet, Ankou Song, 2023. 200 × 150 cm. Acrylic, oil pastels and alcohol-based printing on canva.

THE LIVING ROOM
Nanténé Traoré, on either side the river lie, 2025. 80 x 120 cm. Print on velvet, mounted on wooden frame and shadow box.

THE LIVING ROOM
Dhewadi Hadjab, Untitled, 2022. 200 × 145 cm. Oil on canva.

This group exhibition brings together nine artists from the emerging art scene—Han Bing, Clédia Fourniau, Clémence Gbonon, Dhewadi Hadjab, Leelee Kimmel, Wynnie Mynerva, Anhar Salem, Pol Taburet, and Nanténé Traoré. The Living Room is an encounter with the young French contemporary art scene, bringing together iconic works and pieces recently acquired by Reiffers Initiatives, and is part of its mission to support and give visibility to the emerging figures of tomorrow’s contemporary art. Pol Taburet depicts the body as a space of transformation populated by figures that are half-human, half-spectral. Influenced by Quimbo beliefs, Caribbean mythology, and Quattrocento art, his work explores the boundary between the animate and the inanimate, the visible and the invisible, through hallucinatory scenes where the body becomes the bearer of occult narratives.
Nanténé Traoré’s work is based on the physical and chemical transformation of film photography, in which each image is altered through manual processes that distort and erase it. Often rendered abstract, or even nearly vanished, the image becomes a mere evocation, questioning both memory and absence. For Dhewadi Hadjab, bodies under constraint are the starting point for compositions that explore their presence in symbolically enclosed spaces. Through light effects inspired by the Caravaggio school, he explores the psychological dimension of the body, navigating between abandonment, emptiness, and the quest for balance.

THE LIVING ROOM
Nanténé Traoré, no matter how hard we try it does not get better than Pet Sounds, 2025. 70 × 50 cm. Print on velvet, mounted on wooden frame and shadow box.

THE LIVING ROOM
Leelee Kimmel, Griffen, 2018. 208,3 × 284,5 × 3,8 cm. Acrylic on canva.

THE LIVING ROOM
Wynnie Mynerva, The Nightmare I, 2024. 190 × 254 cm. Oil on canva.

The question of pictorial matter then shifts toward more expansive forms in the work of Leelee Kimmel, whose canvases oscillate between controlled abstraction and spontaneous outpouring. Her biomorphic compositions, rooted in Surrealism, feature a dense, luminous, and almost sensual style of painting.
Taking a different approach to the body and its representations, Wynnie Mynerva has developed a visual and performative practice that explores the transgression of gender and sexual norms, rejecting any categorization or control over the figures she depicts.

THE LIVING ROOM
Clédia Fourniau, Dark Room, 2024. 165 × 177 × 7,5 cm. Polymer-based medium, acrylic paint, vinyl paint, dye, pigment, mica and resin on fabric.

THE LIVING ROOM
Clémence Gbonon, Another Incendiary Dream, 2025. 195 × 130 cm. Oil on canva.

THE LIVING ROOM
Han Bing, A Very Lucky Man’s Melancholy, 2023. 172,7 × 203,2 × 3,5 cm. Oil, acrylic and pastel on linen.

This exploration of the conditions of the image continues in the work of Clédia Fourniau, who examines the processes of creation, perception, and repetition in painting. Between experimentation and extended temporality, her work engages with the very act of painting and its material conditions.
With Clémence Gbonon, painting becomes a space of confrontation, where objects, motifs, and traces of everyday life come together as if in “wastelands,” fueled by the vitality of American figurative expressionism. Finally, Han Bing draws on the layering of urban elements and visual fragments from the everyday environment, which she transforms into painting. Her work falls under the category of “glitch art,” where irregularities and breaks become the very substance of the image.