Opening : Wednesday, June 17, 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Curator: Maëlle Dault

Born in 1997 in Toulon, Raphaël Massart lives in Pantin and works in Paris. He graduated from the Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2024. Raphaël Massart creates a body of work comprising photographs, sculptures, and installations informed by consumerism and visual techniques.

The exhibition Pantin explores the connections between language, the city, and intimacy through an installation of letter-sculptures and images created in the artist’s living and working spaces. Language, thus transformed into an object, reveals the tension between the intimate and the visual codes of sales. A levitating mannequin, taken from museum or department store windows, questions how the gaze and the body are conditioned by a visual regime. The domestic photographs, meanwhile, examine the role of the gaze in the intimate sphere. The exhibition deliberately disrupts certain codes: the images and texts are inserted into the interstices of a broader framework, thereby offering a critical reading of urban space and visual culture, where the public and the private intersect and reconfigure themselves.