Every month LAPARADE provides a Carte Blanche to artists to create and publish their art.
Marie-Yaé Suematsu
Marie-Yaé Suematsu draws and paints on different media (ceramic, textile, paper...). These various techniques of image creation enable her to have a variety of approaches to the world around her and to enrich her drawings.
Xolo Cuintle
Carte Blanche by Xolo Cuintle - Sleep and His Half Brother Death (2022).
For La Parade‘s Carte Blanche, the duo Xolo Cuintle wandered around the Parisian cemeteries searching for dogs looking after their deceased ones in their everlasting homes. As a study, the series gives an understanding of this recurring figure in their work.
Joël Guenoun
Le Ouaouaseau, published by Actes Sud, is a book by Joël Guenoun. He lives in Paris, is a graphic designer from the Arts Décoratifs de Paris, and is the author of comics and short films. In Le Ouaouaseau, he casts a spell on our vision, through a magical bestiary of wonderful animals.
Zoé Coulon
Zoé Coulon aka Faune studio lives and works in Paris. Graduated from the Olivier de Serres school and the Chardon Savard workshop, she worked several years for fashion houses before devoting herself entirely to illustration.
Her favorite subject: Animals and especially dogs.
Her artistic approach aims to bring out the complicity that can exist between two beings of different species and the beauty of these often well-matched duos.
Liz Stirling
After working for many years as an art director and designer in the digital world, Liz took up painting again. Which rapidly and unexpectedly became a daily practice. She now works as an artist and designer for clients using illustration and many other materials to make decorative objects of all sorts. There are two centres of interest in her painting; simply the moment, the time to observe and paint what is before you and soulful ideas.
Hélène Blanc
In addition to her work as an art director and photographer (as part of the duo @antinomia.fr), Hélène has been drawing on themes that are dear to her for many years. The body and the upheavals that animate it are a never-ending subject of inspiration that she treats through graphic techniques that allow her to evoke the loss of control and emotions. She has recently been working on a series of animals suffering from powerful emotions and some strange hybrids.
SIAM
After having lived in the North of France between Boulogne sur mer and Roubaix, Siam settled in Paris where he currently lives and works. His visual work is based on his strolls through the landscapes of Northern France. For instance, the long stretches of deserted beaches of Boulogne sur Mer and the chaotic landscapes of the industrial era are part of the scenarios of his work.
Francesca Albergo
Francesca Albergo is a multidisciplinary designer based in Italy. She has been talking with animals since 1996. Here, she shows her interpretation of an English children's book from ‘800: “The world turned upside down”, where power dynamics among animals are depicted reversed. Lately, she has been exploring some illustration techniques that leave a big room for chance: Ink stains and freestyle needle felting. That’s how a series of crooked awkward animal shapes was born.
Giulia Dussollier
Giulia Dussollier is a French-Italian artist based in Paris. She performs in the shows of the company Désirades and the collective La Ville en Feu. She has met dogs and professionals from the canine world and is training in ethology. Here she presents some extracts from her new project after having directed Les Promeneuses, her first short film from a dog's point of view, with the artist Clara Benoit Jacoby.
Isabelle Paga
Isabelle Andrée Paga lives and works in Paris and St-Nazaire. After graduating from the Ecole Boulle and the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Arts de Paris-Cergy, Isabelle Andrée Paga developed her work as a graphic designer and visual artist while teaching visual arts and cinema from secondary school to university. She has collaborated as an illustrator with the magazine Profane and authors from all horizons. In 2019, she joined the Projet Neuf, a space-laboratory for artistic experimentation based in St-Nazaire.
Iris de Moüy
Iris de Moüy est une artiste française qui vit et travaille à Londres. Elle dessine, peint, écrit. Son univers s'exprime au travers de publications personnelles, de livres pour enfants, d'expositions mais aussi de collaborations avec des marques sélectionnées. Ses dessins ont été exposés à Paris et à Kyoto, où elle était en résidence à la Villa Kujoyama en 2015.
