Wifrid Almendra (b. 1972, Cholet, France) lives and works in Marseille, France and Casario, Portugal. The artist’s formal vocabulary is derived from the architecture, shapes, and surfaces with which we surround ourselves. The materials he uses most often come from the alternative economy, barter and exchange. They bring into tension questions linked to social class, the desire for comfort and the individual capacity for invention and poetry found at the heart of the most normative things. Almendra has presented solo exhibitions in France and internationally at institutions including Frac Provence‑Alpes‑Côte d’Azur, Marseille, France (2022); Atlantis Lumière, Marseille, France, as part of Manifesta 13 (2020); Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France (2017); Fogo Island Arts, Canada (2016).

Kiah Celeste (b. 1994, Brooklyn, NY, USA) lives and works in Louisville, KY. In 2016 she received a BFA in photography from the State University of New York at Purchase. Recent solo and group exhibitions include Speed Museum, Louisville, KY (2023); DOCUMENT, Lisbon, Portugal (2023); Swivel Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (2023); DOCUMENT, Chicago, IL (2022); KMAC Museum, Louisville, KY (2021); University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington, KY (2021); Centre d’Art La Rectoria, Sant Pere De Vilamajor, Barcelona, Spain (2020); and Dadapost, Berlin, Germany (2020). Celeste’s work lives in numerous private collections and was recently gifted to the Speed Museum in Louisville.

Julien Creuzet (b. 1986, Paris, France) is a French-Caribbean artist who lives and works in Paris. A visual artist and poet, he actively intertwines these two practices via amalgams of sculpture, installation and textual intervention that frequently address his own diasporic experience. Inspired by the poetic and philosophical reflections of Aimé Césaire and Édouard Glissant on creolization and migration, Creuzet’s work focuses on the troubled intersection of the history of Martinique and the events of European modernity. Creuzet represented France at the 2024 Venice Biennale and his first institutional solo exhibition in the USA opens on February 20, 2025 at The Bell, Brown University, Providence, RI. He has had solo exhibitions at Le Magasin, Grenoble, France (2023); Performa Biennial, New York, NY, USA (2023); LUMA Westbau, Zürich, Switzerland (2023), LUMA Arles, France (2022); Camden Art Centre, London, UK (2022); Palais De Tokyo, Paris, France (2019); CAN Centre d’Art Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland (2019); Fondation d’Entreprise Ricard, Paris, France (2018); and Bétonsalon, Paris, France (2018).

Anneke Eussen (b. 1978, Kerkrade, The Netherlands) utilizes the formal principles of Minimalism evoking geometric seriality, yet quietly deploys hidden narratives and secret histories in her work. Her practice revolves around cultivating and repurposing found materials into meticulously detailed and ghostly wall sculptures. Through layering, arrangement, and assembly interventions, Eussen is never manipulating the original shape of the objects and insists on using their original framework. Eussen had a solo exhibition at Kunstverein Schwerin, Germany (2023) and has participated in group exhibitions at Fondation Villa Datris, L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, France; GIST Triënnale in de Zennevallei, Belgium; HISK, Antwerp, Belgium; Horizonverticaal, Haarlem, The Netherlands; Lage Egal, Berlin, Germany; Park Platform for Visual Arts, Tilburg, The Netherlands among many others.

Erin Jane Nelson (b. 1989, Neenah, WI, USA) lives and works in Santa Fe, NM. Her practice is grounded in photography sourced from her personal archive of found and original images, which she intuitively merges onto unexpected support structures including silk, hand‑crafted quilts, panels, and ceramic. Through speculative world-building, layering everyday materials, and historical research, her work broadly explores the psychological impact of the climate crisis through a feminist lens. Solo exhibitions include the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta, GA (2021) and Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA, USA (2019). Her work has been featured in group exhibitions at the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh PA (2024); The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (2021); Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO (2020); Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands (2020); La Galerie, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Noisy-le-Sec, France (2019); and Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany (2018). Nelson was the recipient of a 2023 Guggenheim Fellowship in the Creative Arts.

Paul Mpagi Sepuya (b. 1982, San Bernardino, CA, USA) is an artist working in photography whose projects weave together histories and possibilities of portraiture, queer and homoerotic networks of production and collaboration, and the material and conceptual potential of blackness at the heart of the medium. His interests also include queer literary modernism, as well as questions of artistic responsibility and care regarding representation and refusal. Sepuya is included in the 14th Mercosur Biennial, opening in Porto Alegre, Brazil, in March 2025. Recent solo exhibitions include Nottingham Contemporary, UK (2023); Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany (2022); Bemis, Omaha, NE (2020); CAM St. Louis, MO (2020); and a project for the 2019 Whitney Biennial. The artist’s largest monograph to date was published by Aperture in 2024. Works by Sepuya are held in the collections of the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Getty and Guggenheim Museums, LACMA, MoMA, SFMoMA, the Studio Museum in Harlem, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, among others.

Claude Viallat (b. 1936, Nîmes, France) is a foundational figure of the Supports/Surfaces movement that emerged in the south of France in the late 1960s and 1970s. Viallat engages with a post-structuralist philosophy by treating stretchers, textiles, and pigments as their own subjects of investigation. He creates paradoxically austere yet exuberant objects and installations that reframe the traditional materials of painting, completely free from aesthetic commitment. Viallat is represented in the collections of major institutions in France and beyond, including the Centre Pompidou, Paris; MAMAC Musée d’art moderne et d’art contemporain, Nice, France; Carré d’Art, Nîmes, France; The Museum of Modern Art, New York. NY; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA; The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan; and SMAK Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium.