Image extraite du film Terre, mer, ciel, réalisé par Delphine Contet, Elias Haddad et Ceva Ipatov en collaboration avec Maison de l’Enfance Tony Lainé, 2026.
Room for Mutation
7 to 31 of May at Ygrec-ENSAPC art Centre
Opening on the 7th of May, 5pm to 9pm
With : Reem Alnatsheh, Nicole Caoduro, Delphine Contet, Elias Haddad, Ceva Ipatov, Araya Luna Melia Bianco, Lara Pels, Luna Pinazo et Mariam Sguiri. Sur une proposition de Chương-Đài Võ en collaboration avec Guillaume Breton.
Conceived specifically for Centre d’art Ygrec-ENSAPC, the exhibition explores the relationship between a school, its art space, and the immediate environment in which it is situated. The students developed proposals inspired by Aubervilliers—its communities, architecture, and public spaces—through a collaborative research and creation process with their partners and the art centre. The scenography comprises evolving, playful, and ephemeral forms that are metaphors for movement, migration, and temporality. The exhibition prioritises process over fixed outcomes, leaving room for the unexpected and the emergence of new forms of reciprocity.
Terre, mer, ciel is a set of three short films directed by Delphine Contet, Elias Haddad, and Ceva Ipatov. Shot by children of the Maison de l’enfance Tony Lainé between January and March 2026, the improvisational experiment invited the children to imagine their own film set, create their own costumes, and play. With each new encounter redefining the next, the process followed a constant recalibration and attunement. The camera, passed from one child to another, reveals their unbounded curiosity and mutual bonds. A sense of freedom emerges from the improvised games. Various registers – theatre, sculpture, and dance –intersect and blend together.
Papier peint, made by Elias Haddad and Ceva Ipatov, is a painting on wallpaper with acrylic and pastel. The main inspiration comes from the childhood play of drawing on walls. The painting was made in two steps: first painting floral patterns as inspired by real wallpaper, and then adding “children’s drawings” creating a tension between the decorative and the spontaneous, the established frame and carefree gestures. Inspired by the film project Terre, mer, ciel, Papier peint assumes a child drawing on wallpaper, who then imagines a movie inhabited by its motifs and details. The painting is a second screen in conversation with the films, extending the latter’s sensibility into the exhibition space and proposing a dialogue between painting and the moving image.
Tracing Landscapes is a video game and an installation of paintings by Mariam Sguiri and Reem Alnatsheh. The main character is a teenager who goes for a walk in the city, exploring its neighborhoods. This game takes inspiration from early 2000s home movies and internet structures: personal pages, video channels, and vlogs. People used these technologies to broadcast personal archives and promote a sense of community, such as through green spaces. Taking the form of a simple child’s game, the project references private-public partnerships that replace social housing with “ecological housing”, which often end up driving out lower-income residents who cannot afford the higher rents.
Things We Leave Behind, For Now is an installation consisting of a mixed media painting and ceramic sculptures created by Araya Luna Melia Bianco and Lara Pels. The project departs from images and textures of Aubervilliers that the students collected, such as those found in its architecture, pavements, traces of people, rocks from construction sites, and peeling tree bark. This visual database is embedded into the objects using various techniques such as painting, silkscreen printing, weaving, stamping and photolithography. The motifs and shapes of the sculptures and the painting evolved out of observations of a city being transformed by waves of immigration, gentrification, and reconstruction, a process that Anna Tsing theorises as one of “friction” and translocal cultures.
Pièce par pièce comprises a modular scenography of wood and reclaimed materials, created by Nicole Caoduro and Luna Pinazo. Conceived as an evolving structure, its pieces can be moved, reconfigured, and adapted to the different situations the exhibition presents—alternatively becoming plinths, seats, tables, partitions, or supports. They oscillate between sculptural objects and functional furniture. Designed in relation to the space it inhabits, the scenography’s shifting form reflects the need for coexistence between the works. It thus becomes the reflection of a space in constant negotiation, where stability is never fixed but collectively constructed.
Reem Alnatsheh
Born and raised in Hebron, Palestine, works and lives in Pantin, France. She explores the intersections of social geography, contemporary realities and the notions of homeland and exile. Drawing on Palestinian folktales and mythologies, she explores themes of displacement and resistance, and the struggle for justice and liberation for the Palestinian community. Her exhibitions include the recent solo Letters to Anat at Traits Libers Gallery (2026), and Drawing Now in Paris (2026), Art-o-rama in Marseille (2025), and RITUALS at POUSH in Aubervilliers (2023). She has had art residencies at Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, France, (2022) and A.M. Qattan Foundation Visual Arts in Ramallah, Palestine (2020), among others.
Nicole Caoduro
Born and raised in Vicenza, Italy, works and lives in Paris, France. Always seeking correspondence between her roots and her aspirations, she graduated in Chinese culture and language from Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO). This experience developed her interest in form, identity and craftsmanship. Her current artistic work with sculpture and paper dyeing focuses on nature’s sensitivity and material agency, and how organic and industrial materials find their balance in the development of their transformation. With slow and hand-driven gestures, she questions time, fragility and most of all, our senses. Caoduro’s work is meant to be touched, smelled and engaged through the sensitivity of each.
Delphine Contet
Born in Alfortville, France, lives and works in Cergy, France. She graduated from the University of Edinburgh with a Bachelor’s degree in Linguistics in 2024, and is currently a second-year student at the École nationale supérieure d’arts de Paris Cergy. Her work encompasses sound installation, writing, and mixed-media sculpture. She is primarily concerned with the semiotics of cultural practices in urban environments, with a particular focus on sound as a carrier of ideological messages. Her work counterbalances the playful and the sinister, cynicism and earnest hope.
Elias Haddad
Born in Tunis, Tunisia, lives and works in Paris, France. Elias Haddad is a multimedia artist who works across photography, video, painting and text. Guided by intimate attention to the people and places that shape his emotional landscape, his practice unfolds as a quiet ode to what he holds close. Often rooted in questions and preoccupations that inhabit him at the time of making, this practice reflects an ongoing dialogue between personal experience and broader notions of memory, attachment and belonging.
Ceva Ipatov
Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, lives and works in Paris, France. Currently a second-year student at the École nationale supérieure d’arts de Paris Cergy, Ipatov grew up in Russia, listening to American jazz, Colombian cumbia, and Boney M. His mother was interested in Buddhism, coming from a family bearing traces of Jewish tradition and having been baptised in the Russian Orthodox Church. Having invented his own polytheistic religion at the age of eleven, Ipatov recycles industrial waste into objects of new spirituality, and makes absurd, tragic and shy rituals with them. His objects are born on the border between the living and the non-living, between rational calculations of a mechanism and emotions created by its imprecisions and errors.
Araya Luna Melia Bianco
Born in London, United Kingdom, lives and works in Paris, France. Of Venezuelan heritage, Bianco grew up between London and Mallorca, Spain. A first-year student at the École nationale supérieure d’arts de Paris Cergy, Bianco works mainly with painting and installation. She explores themes of diasporic identity and memory, as well as the evolution of figurative representation in a digital age. Her works present collaged universes, backgrounds of desert landscapes and neon colours populated with symbols and figures nourished by magical realism, archives of family photos, 1980s beauty pageants, recurring childhood dreams, and computer graphics.
Lara Pels
Born in 1999 in Hilversum, the Netherlands, works and lives in Paris, France. Pels is an artist who studied cultural anthropology at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and the University of Leipzig, and is currently studying at École nationale supérieure d’arts de Paris Cergy. They work across photography, film, installation, and sculpture, blending documentary and conceptual approaches to explore the body as a site of inter-affect, tenderness, and transformation. Rooted in queer perspectives and anthropological inquiry, Pels’s practice oscillates between intimacy and politics, archiving lived experience while imagining freer futures.
Luna Pinazo
Born in Paris, France in 2005, works and lives in Paris, France. Pinazo’s dad works in compliance and her mom is a data analyst. She does not have any brothers or sisters, but she does have an obese female cat called Pichnoufette. Her dad loves rock music, especially from the 1980s, so she grew up listening to The Smiths and Morrissey. She now listens to Manu Chao, Philippe Katerine, and Kalash Criminel. She tries to create objects that are clean, square and well-organised, but those adjectives are the complete opposite of who she is. Her practice is largely centred around wood, with a particular interest in balance. She places great importance on the supports that hold her pieces, treating and developing them with the same level of attention as the sculptures themselves.
Mariam Sguiri
Born in Colombes, France, works and lives in Gennevilliers, France. Growing up spending a lot of time reading, she incorporates intense research into her work. Her projects focus on the transmission and archiving of physical and digital sounds and visual material. She questions our relation to the traces that we leave, as well as transmission and sharing processes.
