A WORLD OF THEIR OWN
Rashid Al Khalifa, Amélie Chassary, Olivia Cognet, Soo Kyoung Lee, Kahina Loumi, Alice Magne, Beck Marshall, Eleonora Paciullo, Eleonora Strano.
+ Designers in collaboration with Dune Studio, Nice.
RAD/ART Public Event: Saturday, December 19, 2026
For the duration of the exhibition, the gallery becomes a unique, imaginary living space where the public discovers the home of a fictional collector.
Through furniture design, paintings on canvas, photographs, and objects, the viewer embarks on an intimate journey: personal narratives, dreamlike visions of the South, all expressed through a variety of media and materials. Different eras blend together to create a new story.
The collection as a whole showcases multiple identities in a single space, all harmonizing with one another.
Like a collection built up over the years through encounters, each contributor brings their own vision of the world—and, ultimately, a world of their own.
For this occasion, the gallery collaborated with the Nice-based interior architecture studio Dune. The collaboration arose from a meeting between Annabelle Audren, founder of 46 St Paul Gallery, and Lionel Dupraz, a partner at the studio, which sparked a discussion leading to a selection that showcases a collector’s interior spanning the 1950s to the 1970s.
Thus, the collection includes a pair of Pierre Guariche G10 armchairs produced by Airbone (circa 1950), an Audoux Minet rattan sofa (circa 1960), a Herbier coffee table by Roger Capron (circa 1970), and a “Space Age” floor lamp (anonymous, circa 1970).
The exhibition seeks to bridge eras and blur the boundaries between design practices in a collection joyfully assembled with spontaneity and playfulness.
“I wanted to shift the ‘white cube’ image of the contemporary art gallery a bit, and since we’re in the South of France, to play with inspirations and pay homage to those designers and styles that may have left a mark on us—sometimes in the family homes of our childhood—and that are timeless. I’m deeply committed to bringing art and design together because the dialogues we can create—the way they interact in space, the lines, the geometry, the colors—are a thrilling challenge. If we can add to that the history of a place, which is ultimately a blank page waiting to be filled each time—much like what we see with the gallery’s clients—creativity grants us a joyful freedom. The visual artists featured here draw on their life experiences, memories, and visions, so I find that immersing oneself in an intimate, cocoon-like space allows viewers to be in an environment that is undoubtedly more conducive to reflecting on the themes explored. I I feel a connection to these designers, who at some point left their hometowns to settle in the South of France, and I’m interested in seeing how their styles have evolved. Pierre Guariche, who spent part of his life in Bandol; the Audou-Minet house in Golf-Juan; and Roger Capron in Vallauris—all places near St. Paul-de-Vence that deserve to be reinterpreted through the lens of today’s artists." Annabelle AUDREN, Gallery Director.
AN IMAGINARY INTERIOR BETWEEN ART, DESIGN, AND
INTIMATE STORIES IN SAINT-PAUL-DE-VENCE
Since its opening in the heart of Saint-Paul-de-Vence, 46 St Paul Gallery has fostered a dialogue between painting, photography, ceramics, and design, centered on explorations where color, light, material, and the relationship to the landscape take center stage. With *Un monde à eux*, the gallery takes this approach even further: the white cube temporarily disappears to become
a living space.
For the duration of this exhibition, its spaces take on the contours of an imaginary
collector’s apartment. The artworks are interwoven with furniture, objects, and ceramics in a display conceived in collaboration with Studio Dune and Upon Request, where eras, uses, and disciplines echo one another. It is no longer simply a matter of looking at works hung on the walls, but of entering a world, as if someone had just momentarily left the room.
Photographs resembling souvenir images, dreamlike visions of the South, real or
reconstructed landscapes, crafted objects, collected materials, refined forms, and memories of travels gradually compose a sensitive portrait of an absent inhabitant. Through this fictional interior, eight highly personal ways of inhabiting the world emerge.
Rashid Al Khalifa explores color, light, and surface through a language rooted in his
Middle Eastern heritage. His works introduce the presence of another place into this interior.
Amélie Chassary transforms flowers, fruits, textiles, and everyday objects into photographic compositions. Her images evoke memory, intimacy, and the passage of time.
Olivia Cognet blurs the boundaries between ceramics, sculpture, and design. Her pieces, which straddle the line between artwork and object, fully contribute to the lived-in atmosphere of the exhibition.
Kahina Loumi creates paintings inspired by light, color, and Mediterranean
landscapes. Her works convey a sensory experience of places and movement.
Alice Magne creates paintings using natural dyes, pigments, and plant-based
materials. In her practice, the harvesting and transformation of materials are an integral
part of the artwork itself.
Beck Marshall explores our relationship to the landscape and the traces left by the places we pass through. His photographs bring a memory of travel and territory into the exhibition.
Eleonora Paciullo works with memories, archives, and personal mythologies.
Her works oscillate between lived memory and reconstructed narrative.
Eleonora Strano develops a practice at the intersection of documentary and the visual arts, with a focus on territories and their transformations. Her images reveal a South that is at once real, sensory, and dreamlike.
More than a group exhibition, *Un monde à eux* thus constructs a mental landscape: eight artists, eight sensibilities, and as many fragments that, when brought together, tell the story of the possible life of an imaginary collector and invite each viewer to project their own.
