{"id":72926,"date":"2026-05-22T12:41:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T10:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/villa-arson.fr\/programmation\/expositions\/staring-at-the-sun-exposition-des-diplomees-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T18:08:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T16:08:39","slug":"staring-at-the-sun-exposition-des-diplomees-2026","status":"publish","type":"exhibitions","link":"https:\/\/new.villa-arson.fr\/en\/programmation\/expositions\/staring-at-the-sun-exposition-des-diplomees-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Staring at the Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Opening on Thursday, July 9, from 6:00 PM<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The 2026 Villa Arson Graduate Exhibition, entitled Staring at the Sun<\/em>, invites us to \u201clook the sun in the face.\u201d It brings together a generation of artists who have chosen a form of lucidity that is both sharp and sensitive. Observing the tensions, flows, and paradoxes of the contemporary world, they translate their inquiries into aesthetic forms where materiality and language converge to imagine poetic and lived alternatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The exhibition unfolds as a three-part dialogue, three states of sensibility that respond to one another throughout the spaces. The first sequence confronts the structures and injunctions that shape our lives, exploring notions of control, norms, and repetition through the rigor of form and image. This formal tension gives way to a second phase devoted to margins and withdrawal. Here, the works become more intimate, favoring modest materials, fragile gestures, and personal narratives that inhabit interstitial spaces and re-enchant the everyday. Finally, the exhibition opens onto the stark light and vital energy of the outdoors, where artistic gestures engage with the elements to experience living processes and forge a deeper connection with the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Within this collective experience, artistic language itself becomes a tangible, raw material. The diversity of practices\u2014from painting to installation, performance to video, as well as photography and music\u2014creates a singular polyphony. Faced with the uncertainties of our time, these thirty-four voices do not offer dogmas or ready-made answers. By bringing their energies together, they instead create a shared space for reflection, where artistic creation becomes a site of vibrant and attentive emancipation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Curator:<\/strong> Martha Kirszenbaum<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Artists<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Anouk Abiven, Laura Alvergnat, Nour Asran Mahmoud, Garance B., Mathilde Bapst, Arto Bornes, V\u00edtor Carvalho Rezende feat YANG\u00cdLANGO \u24b6 + CIAmigos \u212e, J\u00e9r\u00e9mie Catol, Evan Comte, Juliette Djahyef Moran, Junes Dreyfus, Julianne Dumont, \u00e8, Eole & Lili, Liom\u00e9e Filtz, Magdalena Galus, Lou Girerd-Chambaz, Cl\u00e9ment H\u00e9mery, Feishan Hsieh \u8b1d\u6590\u73ca, Minah Jeon, Jongmo Kang, Tatiana Lardy, Zeonghyeon Leekim, Elina Martemyanova, Kenz* Medjnoun, Emma Neame, Camille Nguyen, Alexis Ruault, Jiaqi Shen, Kyoungbae Son, Yuhan Sun, Daniel Zeeland, Mengxi Zeng.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Practical Information<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Exhibition on view from July 10 to September 27, 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Opening hours:<\/strong> Daily except Tuesdays, from 2:00 PM to 7:00 PM in July and August, and from 2:00 PM to 6:00 PM in September.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Free admission \u2013 no reservation required.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Address:<\/strong> Villa Arson, 20 Avenue Stephen Liegeard, 06100 Nice, France<\/p>\n\n\n

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