For the first time in the Salon space, the gallery presents a duo show bringing together Amélie Bigard and Renaud Artaban. Titled “Playground Love”, this project combines paintings and installations to explore the ambiguous terrain of adolescence—between softness and darkness, between self-construction and the loss of bearings.
Through their respective practices, the two artists evoke a diffuse melancholy, both intimate and collective, where memories of a pivotal age resurface: that of first emotions, emerging desires, and the tensions that accompany a gradual departure from the familial framework and internalized norms. The exhibition unfolds within this fragile in-between, where the individual wavers between inheritance and emancipation, between what is given and what remains to be invented.
Paintings and installations enter into dialogue, creating a sensitive, almost narrative environment where forms, colors, and materials evoke a range of emotional states. In “Playground Love”, adolescence becomes a mental space—a site of projection where desire, solitude, reverie, and rebellion intertwine. Between sky and asphalt, the artists sketch figures in the process of becoming, seeking to invent themselves beyond imposed frameworks.
The exhibition invites the viewer to re-enter this transitional state, both tender and uneasy, where the contours of identities in formation begin to emerge.

Text by | Thomas Havet