Current Exhibition : “Not A Man”, Corinne Mariaud

January 22nd - Feb. 28th 2026

Not a man

The series “I Am Not a Man” consists of staged photographs that explore the social and visual construction of femininity. Both serious and burlesque, the work considers the female body as a site where norms, fantasies, and power relations are inscribed.

Femininity appears less as an essence than as a set of visible signs, produced and regulated by society. In the images, femininity escapes all control. It emerges through specific parts of the body, oscillating between apparent legitimacy and disruption of the gaze, creating a grotesque effect that destabilizes the viewer. The body becomes a space of tension,where normative markers of femininity assert themselves while simultaneously fracturing under their own visibility.

Through exaggeration, displacement, and irony, the series highlights the performative dimension of gender and exposes its constructed and repetitive nature. The aesthetic and sexual stigmatization of the female body is neither denied nor reproduced as such, but reinterpreted with humor, creating a space where ambiguity becomes a form of emancipation.

The gallery is delighted to present contrasting visions on climate change—a theme close to its heart. By 2060, this crisis will reshape our lives. Basile Pelletier and Mats Carduner share their perspectives on the world as it is and will be.

Basile Pelletier was born in 2002 into an overheating world, at 373 ppm. For him, the question is not “if,” but “how.” Between fatalism, nostalgia for a world he barely knew, and the sense of a confiscated life, he offers an anticipatory view of his daily existence, seeking beauty within the dystopia that has already begun.

Mats Carduner was born in 1968, at 323 ppm. A child of consumer society, he once believed progress and well-being had no limits—until realizing humanity had breached planetary boundaries. Between denial, shattered hopes, and surges of grief for a changing world, he continues to capture the world’s beauty through his lens; yet behind the utopia of a preserved Eden lurks the insidious imprint of the Anthropocene.

The two artists present a vision torn between necessary adaptation and the desire to believe we still control our destiny, preserving the perfection of our world.