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En haut : Paul Garcin, Le Pouvoir de l’Amour, de la fascination et de Céline Dion - vidéo version, vidéo, 2023, capture d’écran. En bas : Louise Mervelet, spiritual hardcore, 2022, impression sur papier plastifié et terre, 3537. Photo : Louise Desplace. :
Louise Mervelet, Never Give Up (détail), voyons voir, dragée rosière.
Louise Mervelet, seeking for the bottom : what is the bottom ? 2022, sculpture installation, Fondation Fiminco. Photo : Isaac Lythgoe.
Louise Mervelet, spiritual hardcore, 2022, impression sur papier plastifié et terre, 3537. Photo : Louise Desplace.
Louise Mervelet, Cavalière de Scopa, 2021, dessin numérique.
Louise Mervelet, Never Give Up (détail), voyons voir, dragée rosière.
Paul Garcin, I Heard It All Before, performance, 2024, finissage de l’exposition am i a nepo baby? Photo : Nelson BC.
Paul Garcin, The Phase de Doute Performance, performance, 2024, dans le cadre de la soirée « je suis artiste » à la Villa Savoye de Poissy. Photo : LG
Paul Garcin, Forever Mentone, spectacle performatif, 2024. Photo : Sixtine de Bodard.
Paul Garcin, Le Pouvoir de l’Amour, de la fascination et de Céline Dion, performance, 2022. Photo : Pierre Acobas.
Paul Garcin, Le Pouvoir de l’Amour, de la fascination et de Céline Dion - vidéo version, vidéo, 2023, capture d’écran.
Louise Mervelet et Paul Garcin
From Saturday 1 March to Saturday 31 May 2025
During their residency at Lindre-Basse in the spring of 2025, Paul Garcin and Louise Mervelet aim to formalize their long-standing collaboration, which has primarily consisted of various invitations (musical and radio projects on Tikka Radio, or within the KimPetrasPaintings collective). This time, however, they are driven by a desire for a true on-site collaboration. The practices of the two residents share many commonalities: both focus on vernacular and historical contexts to construct their narratives and artistic identities, and they cultivate a form of relational aesthetics
that encourages dialogue and closeness with the actors of the different territories they explore, anchoring these through their aesthetics and respective pop references.
In his practice, which spans performance, video, music, installation, and painting, Paul Garcin creates storylines that blend autobiography and autofiction, appropriating and diverting the methods established within and by mainstream American pop culture, whose marketing techniques
and imagery have influenced him since childhood. Questioning the construction of the self through fascination and memories, his works are conceived as narrative episodes where his experiences confront reflections on love, queerness, grief, doubt, solitude, and the complexity of human relationships.
Louise Mervelet’s pop aesthetic questions the notion of entertainment as a tool for resistance and subversion. She combines a studio-based artistic practice with theoretical work grounded in intersectional feminism, queer studies, and literature, aiming to create artistic objects that convey narratives outside the beaten paths of the victors' history. Her approach is decidedly collaborative,
dispersed, transdisciplinary, and experimental.
During their residency in Lindre-Basse, the duo plans to take the Fensch Valley and particularly its architecture as a starting point to develop a narrative influenced by the specificities of the place, its history, and the encounters they will have on site. Over two months, the Synagogue of Delme will serve as a meeting and experimentation ground for the two artists, enabling them to create a body of sculptural, sonic, and performative works together. Designed to be autonomous, the sculptural pieces will become fragments of a scenography to be activated during a final performance at the occasion of their open studio.
The artist residency programme is organised by the CAC - la synagogue de Delme in collaboration with the Lorraine Regional Natural Park and the village of Lindre-Basse.
Paul Garcin graduated from the École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Nantes Saint-Nazaire in 2019. He lives and works in Aubervilliers. His work has been shown at Point Éphémère during the Superflash and Jerk Off festivals, at the Villa Savoye in Poissy for Nuit Blanche 2024, at the TUNantes, at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Paris for Felicita19, and at the Graineterie art center in Houilles, as part of the 13th Biennale de la Jeune Création in 2020. He also mixes under the name joyful aries, and starts a show on Tikka Radio in September 2024.
His practice is resolutely collaborative, and he is one of the founding members of KimPetrasPaintings, a variable-geometry collective with whom he is presenting his first exhibition GO FAR, GO HARD at Glassbox, the result of his summer 2021 residency at l'Estive. Subsequently, KPP will be invited to create an installation and workshop at the Palais de Tokyo in February 2023, and at ESACM in autumn 2022.
Louise Mervelet's pop aesthetic questions the notion of entertainment as a weapon of resistance and subversion. She combines a studio-based plastic practice with theoretical work rooted in the fields of intersectional feminism, queer studies and literature: all with the aim of creating plastic
objects that convey narratives off the beaten track of victor's history.
After graduating in duo with Quentin Blomet in 2018 from Villa Arson, she took part in the "Generator" residency in Rennes, then was a DSRA researcher at the Annecy fine arts school, and finally a resident at the Fiminco Foundation. She is currently working on an experimental sound documentary supported by Mécènes du sud, and seeks to develop the mediums of music and sound in her practice, through new conceptual frameworks. She is exploring and deepening her practice of field recording and contextual recording, as well as interviewing, thus maintaining a close link with radio and the formats it offers.
She is also a programmer, curator and dj. She has had a monthly residency on Tikka Radio for three and a half years now, and organizes numerous exhibitions and musical events in alternative and militant environments (Iveco Nu.e, La Caboteuse). Her approach is resolutely collaborative, dispersed, transdisciplinary and experimental.