Founded in 2019, By Lara Sedbon promotes contemporary artists
standing out by their technique, their deep relation ton practical work
and their rethinking of the creative process. As part of Asia Now 2024, Zélie Nguyen and Zoé Thonet have come up with a joint proposal.

Zélie Nguyen is a French painter of Vietnamese origin, who graduated from the Beaux-Arts in Paris in 2021. Zoé Thonet is a French painter who graduated from the Beaux-Arts de Cergy in 2021.

Zélie Nguyen invites viewers to immerse themselves in her utopian world of expanding landscapes inhabited by enigmatic presences. The artist is unveiling a new body of work inspired by her residency in Grenoble this winter. This new body of work expresses itself below and beyond what is happening before our eyes: the essence of Taoist and Zen thought is still alive in the background. The strong influence of Ukiyo-e prints, Oriental miniatures and traditional Vietnamese lacquerware is evident in her visual vocabulary, and the relaxed atmosphere that pervades the works confirms the meditative process underway.

Zoé Thonet has created an ecosystem of miniature sculptures that interact with Zélie Nguyen’s paintings.Mineral and organic, sounds and lights emanate from their materials.Wandering through this meditative space, visitors become witnesses to this ‘life’, this flow of invisible information in which they participate in spite of themselves. This physical experience is associated with feelings.Colour, rhythm and formal vitality nourish a sensory language, an inner vision and a form of consciousness that resonates and becomes sensitive with the use of the object. The aim was to seek out the essence of life and a certain form of spirituality through these abstract, mystical, contemplative and sensual elements.