Participating Artist
Amélie Bernard, Cyril Debon, Alessandro de Marinis, Julien Heintz, Victoire Inchauspé, Jonas Moënne, Zohreh Zavareh
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May 19 → June 6 2022
Paris, France
Press Release
For the exhibition Handle with care, Hatch Gallery has reconsidered the multiple attributes of fragility in terms of simultaneous vulnerability and strength.
Carrying a fault line or ruptures, fragility is often associated with a repulsive disposition, a negative condition of inferiority, a precarious state, a condemnation to powerlessness... Made of eternal cycles, silent and so unpredictable, fragility is nevertheless an opening, a possibility that must be tamed. "No one can escape fragility and nothing escapes it, but it can open up to hope" said Charles Péguy.
Based on this scenario, Hatch proposes for Handle with care: "Give fragility, I will make it a strength!". The six invited artists - Victoire Inchauspé, Julien Heintz, Amélie Bernard, Alessandro de Marinis, Jonas Moenne, Zohreh Zavareh and Cyril Debon - participate in the construction of a nuanced mosaic of narratives supported by resilient voices.
Their varied practices, ranging from painting to sculpture or even ceramics and porcelain, embody different faces of fragility. They bear witness to the vulnerability of people and places, manifesting a personal engagement with the human body, nature and the passage of time. This sensitivity is expressed in a stylistic language of media and forms that is both ephemeral and resistant.
From meditation to investigation to introspection, the composition is informed by artist statements to offer a textured image of the fragile and inform our thinking about generative paths of resistance.
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Julien Heintz (b. 1997, France) is inspired by archival documentary films showcasing historical events over the 20th century. Julien Heintz’s paintings capture atmospheres from a different time, representing through a multitude of layers of pigments the blurred yet recognisable traits of anonymous human figures.
Victoire Inchauspé (b.1998, France) graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2022, the same year she was named the youngest ever finalist for the Prix SAM pour l’Art contemporain with the Palais de Tokyo. In 2021, she won the Prix Sarr (an American-French prize) and the Prix Paris Photo in 2020. She has exhibited her work extensively in France, London and New York. In 2023, Victoire Inchauspé spent 6 months in one of the major residencies in the United States, Residency Unlimited (New York). In 2024, she takes part in the 17th edition of the Biennale de Lyon, curated by Alexia Fabre. She will presents her first solo show at galerie Jousse Entreprise in Paris in January 2026.
Zohreh Zavareh (Iran) draws on theatrical codes to enrich her practice. She has a unique relationship with everyday objects, imbuing them with a voice to speak and reflect on the world around us. Adopting an animistic approach, the artist invests these unexpected protagonists that inhabit our spaces with different meanings through the lens of fiction. Her approach is supported by a writing process that crafts the dialogue of a narrative where the characters are the objects themselves. In 2019, she won the Prix du Conseil Départemental des Hauts-de-Seine at the 64th Salon de Montrouge, and in 2021, the Prix du Sud - Révélations Emerige Grant. She is a resident at the Trame program at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris. Between 2020 and 2022, she held three solo exhibitions at La Terrasse, Nanterre; Ancien Evêché, Toulon; and La Halle, Pont-en-Royans. She has participated in group exhibitions at the Musée d'Art Contemporain de Lyon, Galerie Dohyang Lee, Paris, and Galerie Nosbaum Reding, Luxembourg. She took part in the "L'envers des Pentes" creation residency at the Écrins National Park. In 2023, she was invited to exhibit at Les Instants Chavirés, Montreuil. Her work has recently been added to the collection of the Fonds d'Art Contemporain de la Ville de Paris and the Fonds Départemental d'Art Contemporain de la Seine-Saint-Denis.
Installation view, Handle with Care, Hatch Gallery, Paris, France, 2022. © Gabrielle Connole. Courtesy of the Artists and Hatch Gallery.
Installation view, Handle with Care, Hatch Gallery, Paris, France, 2022. © Gabrielle Connole. Courtesy of the Artists and Hatch Gallery.
Installation view, Handle with Care, Hatch Gallery, Paris, France, 2022. © Gabrielle Connole. Courtesy of the Artists and Hatch Gallery.
Installation view, Handle with Care, Hatch Gallery, Paris, France, 2022. © Gabrielle Connole. Courtesy of the Artists and Hatch Gallery.
Installation view, Handle with Care, Hatch Gallery, Paris, France, 2022. © Gabrielle Connole. Courtesy of the Artists and Hatch Gallery.
Installation view, Handle with Care, Hatch Gallery, Paris, France, 2022. © Gabrielle Connole. Courtesy of the Artists and Hatch Gallery.
