Participating Artist
Ray Barsante (in collaboration with Galerie Lefebvre & Fils), Arnaud Eubelen, Veronika Hilger, Victoire Inchauspé, Théo Massoulier, Leo Maher, Leo Orta, Janine van Oene, Vika Prokopaviciute, Romain Sarrot, Thomas van Rijs, Anna Virnich
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March 27 → April 11 2023
43 rue Notre-Dame-de-Nazareth
Paris, France
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Twelve artists, a soaring soundtrack, an irregular and colorful aesthetic are all key ingredients for the new group show, Infinite Looping in Harmony, elaborated by Hatch Gallery.
The exhibition opens the 2023 season with a plunge into the jazzy cosmogony of Richard Sears, a pianist inhabited by the works proposed in the space, by the budding idyll between rhythms and forms. This musician and composer, originally from San Francisco, imagines an original soundtrack that integrates the sounds of the artists at work: sounds of the studio or of inspiration are mixed with his score, which plays continuously in the exhibition space.
Infinite Looping in Harmony is an invitation to a psychedelic journey: the repetition of Sear's patterns gets into the visitor's head, sending the constellation of works presented into orbit. The resulting choreography submerges us in a polyphonic, synesthetic and sensual experience. Here, the music is conceived in a random, self- generating manner, subject to the pure chance that only those who have once experienced space, may have encountered.
Sears is the conductor of the exhibition, and his score sets the tempo for everything else, with no precise plan, no roadmap, other than the one the viewer wants to give him. The eyes cling to the multiple supports offered by the artists, paintings, sculptures, installations, performances, while the ear attaches itself to the notes for the beginning of this ballet, of this infinite spatial experience.
The rhythms are those of the musical avant-garde of the 70s, which very early on found in loops and repetitions the possibility of an island, a freedom, an invention, an art. It is to these that Infinite Looping in Harmony refers and pays homage via its musical mantras that dance in the void of a world in decline.
The deconstruction operated by the erratic and dodecaphonic music of Richard Sears is the exact counterpart of the works of Théo Massoulier or Romain Sarrot, making the impregnation by the visitor even more profound, to the point of excess, to the point of discomfort. The emotional impact is multiplied tenfold here, and the infinite number of collusions evoked leaves the distant flicker of the pianist's notes lingering in the space.
It is the end of the technical and post-industrial world that finds its echo in this deconstructed music, and allows the emergence here of the purpose of Leo Orta's sculptures, of his forms neither human nor animal, neither living nor dead, this quasi blob that fascinates us so strangely. The alchemy between these forms of life, the obsession of the organic is also found in the paintings of Janine van Oene, Vika Prokopaviciute or Ray Barsante’s sculptures. What forms, what research, what political consciousness will carry the creations of tomorrow, in order to continue to upset us, to alert us, to surprise us?
Veronika Hilger and Anna Virnich explore the adversity of opposites, the vital impulse against the ineluctable power of time passing, while Arnaud Eubelen rewrites the world and design according to his own codes. Eventually, Thomas van Rijs, Victoire Inchauspé and Leo Maher carry out a necessary work of memory, harmoniously combining the materials of the past with those of the present. A generation is here, gathered, embodying each ramification of the world of tomorrow.
With this ambitious project, HATCH confirms its place in the avant-garde of contemporary art, and tries to make perceptible the infinite creation that hides behind a usually soundless language.
Courtesy Margaux Beytout
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Ray Barsante (b. 1990 Ventura, CA) was raised in Santa Barbara and Los Angeles, California and currently works in Queens, New York. He holds BA degrees in Art and Art History from UCLA and an MFA degree in Visual Art from Columbia University. His work spans a wide range of approaches including painting, drawing, printmaking, photography and an array of sculptural mediums. He has been the subject of many domestic and international exhibitions.
Arnaud Eubelen (b. 1991, BE) works in the no-man’s land between sculpture and design, questioning our assumptions leading from concepts to objects and the measure to which construction material are taken for granted, re-appropriating and re-valuing the various industrial building-stones of our world by shifting their use and context to highlight the intrinsic qualities and values.
Veronika Hilger’s (*1981) paintings are located in an intermediate realm: between genres, classifications, and abstraction. They address classical subjects such as interiors, landscapes, still life and portraits. She does not separate these genres clearly from each other but rather fuses them into independent pictorial worlds of biomorphic forms that can be read as parables about the human relationship to nature and about the relationship of humans to each other. Ultimately, the oscillation, the as-well-as, and the in-between are what’s interesting to the artist. She explores fundamental questions about the nature and meaning of painting in its formal, technical and conceptual realization by arranging, shifting, layering and changing the pictorial elements in a spontaneous yet careful painting process.
For some time, the artist has also been concerned with ideas of form, materiality, perspective, color, structure and coating in a sculptural way. Some of her ceramic objects are closely linked to her painting and take up many of its working approaches. The sensibility and care in the handling of color, brush stroke and surface are transferred into a three-dimensional space. Other sculptures, which are more representational, focus more on form than color and have a strong symbolic charge.
Victoire Inchauspé (b.1998, FR) 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.
Théo Massoulier (b. 1983, FR) lives and works in Lyon. He graduated from ENSBA Lyon in 2016 and presented his work at the Lyon Biennale in 2019 and at the Venice Biennale in 2017. In 2021, his solo exhibition Planktôs at the Quinconces du Mans was accompanied by a publication.
Leo Maher is a British-born designer, researcher and sculptural furniture maker who’s work sits at the intersection of object design and art. He graduated Cum Laude from the Design Academy Eindhoven (BA) in 2021 and with Merit from Kingston School of Art (2017). His project ‘Unfamiliar Passions’ was nominated for the DAE Melkweg Award for ‘outspoken talent’ and he was short-listed for the Dutch Design Awards ‘Young Designer Award’ 2022. His work has been exhibited internationally and is held in a number of private collections.
Leo Orta (b. 1993, FR) graduated from the Design Academy Eindhoven in 2019. He currently lives and works in Les Moulins, Seine-et-Marne, France. Through various media, including sculpture, installation, painting and performance, Leo Orta’s work questions the existential nature of the human being. He examines the social and emotional bonds that humans create within their communities and environments. Orta exhibits internationally, as at the Functional Art Gallery in Berlin in 2019, Friedman Benda in New York in 2022 or Beijing at the Sohe Gallery in 2023. Since 2022, his work has been part of the National Museum of Modern Art-Centre for Industrial Creation collections.
Janine van Oene (b. 1988, NL) lives and works in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. In 2014 she graduated from the HKU University of Arts in Utrecht, The Netherlands, and was a resident at De Ateliers in Amsterdam from 2014 to 2016. The medium of painting itself is the core of Janine van Oene’s practice. The buttery quality of oil paint, the magic of mixing and the hunt after the right colour is what drives her. Van Oene’s work is abstract in nature, but finds its origin in still lives and the depiction of interiors.
Vika Prokopaviciute (b. 1983) is a Lithuanian-born painter based in Vienna. In 2006, she graduated from Samara University of Architecture and Engineering in Russia. In 2012, she moved to Austria to study painting at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. She recently exhibited at Haus, Vienna; NEVVEN, Göteborg; xhibit, Vienna; nGbK, Berlin; Mauve, Vienna; Skulpturinstitut, Vienna; Heiligenkreuzerhof, Vienna; Kunstverein Eisenstadt, Eisenstadt.
Romain Sarrot (b. 1986, Paris, France) is an artist whose practice investigates memory, transformation, and narration through a cyclical, immersive methodology. His work has been presented internationally, including solo exhibitions Quarter of Life I / i miss you once at Lokal-int, Bienne, and Quarter of Departure I / 9:00 AM at VITRINE Gallery, London. Group exhibitions include We All Talk to Our Own Gods, Material Art Fair, Mexico City (2025); Après quoi les limbes, Art and History Museum, Geneva (2024); Las Cicadas, Balearic Islands, Spain (2024); and Infinite Looping in Harmony, Hatch, Paris (2023).
Thomas van Rijs (1986) is a Dutch artist currently based in Amsterdam. In 2014, he earned his BFA from the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. He was nominated for the Piket Kunstprijzen in 2015. Van Rijs's work has been showcased in various spaces, including m. simons, W139, Patty Morgan, No Man's Art, Art Rotterdam, and numerous others.
Anna Virnich (b. 1984, Berlin, DE) is known for her textile-based paintings that explore the interplay between materiality, abstraction, and the body. By deconstructing fabrics, garments, and blankets, she transforms them into speculative narratives that challenge the boundaries between the tangible and intangible. In her recent series Fertilizer (2024), Virnich blends fragmented forms with references to graffiti and abstract landscapes, emphasizing the porous nature of images as both literal and metaphorical membranes. Her hand-sewn, collage-like works are created without brushstrokes, yet they evoke painterly qualities through careful manipulation of texture, color, and light. Using materials like satin, silk, and leather, Virnich’s art engages the viewer’s senses, blending visual, tactile, and olfactory elements. These works reflect on corporeality, sensuality, and personal memories—places, people, and moments, diaristically recorded in the fabric and textures she uses. The works resonate with a deep sense of time and experience, evoking intimate connections to past memories while challenging the viewer’s perception of physicality and abstraction.

Installation views, Infinite Looping in Harmony, Hatch Gallery, Paris, France, 2023. © Adrien Thibault. Courtesy of the Artists and Hatch Gallery.

Installation views, Infinite Looping in Harmony, Hatch Gallery, Paris, France, 2023. © Adrien Thibault. Courtesy of the Artists and Hatch Gallery.

Anna Virnich
Hysteric Flowers
2023
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Anna Virnich
Hysteric Flowers
2023
Tuelle, leather, silk, plastic, yarn, oilstick on nettle_ wooden stretch frame
62 × 180 cm

Installation views, Infinite Looping in Harmony, Hatch Gallery, Paris, France, 2023. © Adrien Thibault. Courtesy of the Artists and Hatch Gallery.

Leo Maher
Homo-Delicatus
Fruit Bowl, Ceramic, Glaze, Steel, 3D Print
7,8 X 30 x 9 cm

Installation views, Infinite Looping in Harmony, Hatch Gallery, Paris, France, 2023. © Adrien Thibault. Courtesy of the Artists and Hatch Gallery.

Installation views, Infinite Looping in Harmony, Hatch Gallery, Paris, France, 2023. © Adrien Thibault. Courtesy of the Artists and Hatch Gallery.

Théo Massoulier
5G
2021
Ceramic, coral, plastic fragment, dichroic glass plate, dried plant, mineral
8,5 x 12 x 8 cm

Installation views, Infinite Looping in Harmony, Hatch Gallery, Paris, France, 2023. © Adrien Thibault. Courtesy of the Artists and Hatch Gallery.

Installation views, Infinite Looping in Harmony, Hatch Gallery, Paris, France, 2023. © Adrien Thibault. Courtesy of the Artists and Hatch Gallery.

Installation views, Infinite Looping in Harmony, 2023 (details).


