Come Closer

Zoé Ouvrier

Zoé Ouvrier was born in 1975 in Montpellier, France. In 2002, she graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris and remained living in the capital for twenty-five years. Since November 2019, she has lived and worked in Saint Paul-de-Vence. Zoé Ouvrier uses the engraving technique to restore plywood to its new wood nature. She combines this technique with that of painting and drawing. The bark loaded with imprints evokes the skin, life, the original matrix of which the forest and humanity are made. Her work shows and touches a space between nature and texture in a three-dimensional way.

Zoé Ouvrier likes to bring the ensembles into dialogue by portraying the viewer in front of her work. From her research around the tree emanates a whole relationship to the flesh, to the emotions, to the trace. Which makes her work poetic and sensitive. It thus touches on the emotional vibration in relation to the very life that surrounds us, to our condition and our place in our environment as human beings. Its trees speak to us and move us. For more than 20 years, Zoé Ouvrier has denounced the imbalance of human impact and its uprooting. All her work revolves around this sensitivity and a possible opening towards freedom.

As soon as she left Fine Arts, the press allowed her to gain international recognition. Some collectors order imposing works from her for which Zoe Ouvrier must work, for example, on the four walls of the same room, works made for bedrooms or dining rooms. She then invites those who enter to travel in her painting, to listen to the forest according to the seasons, the intensity of the fauna and the sound of the wind...

Her exhibitions include; Musée Barbier-Mueller, Genève, Suisse. Method and Concept gallery, Naples, Florida, Plaza Athénée Hotel and Art Photo Expo, Paris, France, gallery Podgorny Robinson, Saint Paul de Vence, France, The Gallery, Lugano, Switzerland, Podgorny Robinson gallery, Saint Paul de Vence, France, gallery Territoire, Dubai, AD Collection, at Quai d´Orsay, Paris, France, chez MALLET- Ely House, London, Triode gallery in Paris, France, gallery Rabih Hage in London, UK, Renaud Vuaillart gallery in Paris, France.

Arik Levy

Arik Levy’s expansive body of work spans sculpture, installation, industrial design, photography, video, and set design. Levy’s practice resists categorization. It moves fluidly between disciplines and is underpinned by a deep interest in human emotion, perception, and space. As Levy himself puts it, “the world is about people, not objects.”

Born in Israel in 1963, Levy’s early creative life was unconventional. Surfing and design studio while still in his home country. After participating in a group sculpture painting on surfboards functioned as his first canvases, and he established a graphic exhibition in Tel Aviv in 1986, he relocated to Europe, eventually studying at Art Center Europe in Switzerland, where he received his BS with distinction in 1991. A pivotal period in Japan followed, where Levy deepened his engagement with minimalist design principles and cultural approaches to simplicity, precision, and purpose. These influences continue to echo through his work, which balances conceptual rigor with emotional intuition. international career. His work has been exhibited widely and installed in public.

In 1992, Levy founded his studio in Paris, marking the beginning of a prolific spaces across the globe. He has contributed to fields as diverse as contemporary dance and opera—through set and spatial design—as well as furniture and product design for major international brands. Levy, who is heavily dyslexic, describes art as his primary language of communication. His process is both analytical and instinctive, exploring how objects, environments, and experiences intersect. Whether through large-scale sculptures in urban plazas or immersive interior installations, Levy seeks to create meaning through form, encouraging viewers to feel rather than simply interpret. His interdisciplinary approach and emotional clarity have made him a leading voice in contemporary art and design—an artist who continues to expand the boundaries of creative practice while remaining rooted in human connection.