Galerie Christophe Gaillard is pleased to announce the opening, in September 2025, of an exhibition dedicated to the artists who have been awarded La Résidence | Le Tremblay since 2022.
La Résidence | Le Tremblay aims to promote artistic creation by supporting an emerging artist, of French or international origin, offering them a space for reflection along with a grant.
STÉPHANIE CHERPIN
MARTIN DEPALLE
AMANDINE GURUCEAGA
JEAN-BAPTISTE JANISSET
LÉA JULLIEN
STÉPHANIE CHERPIN
Born in Paris in 1979, Stéphanie Cherpin lives and works between Paris, Nice, and Marseille. She has been practicing sculpture since the mid-2000s.
During her residency at Le Tremblay, she worked with multiple remnants—fragments of sculptures, images, drawings, texts, materials found on site. These wild archives constitute a living matter, a fertile compost, the DNA of her assemblage practice. Their use is almost inexhaustible: they can be grafted, duplicated, expanded, or endlessly disappear. They must constantly be brought back into play, updated according to circumstances. Welcoming context means offering a framework and a duration, and compelling this monstrous archive to take form. Like in a live recording, sculpture captures everything, “not only for the brain, but for the soul, the hands, the heart, the balls. A vehicle or a vessel into which (…) to pour the slightest joy or discovery, the slightest shiver of cold or emotion, the slightest sorrow, the slightest idea as it emerges within me, the slightest doubt, dream, kiss or storm, the slightest question, vision, dance or song, the smallest magical encounters, the slightest laugh or sneeze” (here Stéphanie Cherpin borrows words from George Herms).
Her gestures extend across a wide spectrum that welcomes, interprets, translates, or diverts those of others, blending them with her own: her sculpture relishes “featurings.” At Le Tremblay, she also recorded ghosts, wars, and storms, before pausing, for the time of an exhibition.
MARTIN DEPALLE
The practice of Martin Depalle unfolds through a diversity of mediums—photography, sculpture, painting, drawing, sewing—considered as means of tearing forms and their affects from everyday life in order to reveal their fragility. He works by accident and surprise, using clothing, found objects, or second-hand materials. His installations appear as assemblages that exist only in the present of the gaze.
By combining heterogeneous materials and mediums, he challenges the idea that each form must be completed in order to find its place in the world. His works instead open spaces that question our lacks, our voids, those fragile zones in which we project ourselves and attempt to fill.
At the end of his residency, Martin Depalle created an original work for one of the château’s rooms, based on the imprint of a tree from the park. Entitled Retreating Light, it combines cotton, latex, metal, oil paint, glue, bark, leaves, and LEDs. The works presented in the exhibition extend his plastic research initiated at Le Tremblay.
AMANDINE GURUCEAGA
Born in 1989 and based in Marseille, Amandine Guruceaga is an alchemist of matter. Her work stands out for its ability to transform ordinary materials into poignant testimonies of the world’s fragility and of the resonance of history inscribed within matter.
At the core of her practice lies the question of humanity’s impact on its environment, which she translates into an exploration of the resilience of living beings and their capacity to heal despite constant aggression. Her art is deeply marked by her experience in her parents’ enameling workshop, which nurtured her taste for experimentation. She thus explores a wide range of techniques—dyeing, bleaching, brazing, among others—to metamorphose materials and provoke unpredictable reactions.
During her residency, she developed a series of sculptures from dyed fabrics, which she assembled around rigid frameworks to create organic forms reminiscent of vegetation. These works play with our perception of materials and their qualities: volumes that appear soft and tender are in fact rigid, the result of constraining the medium.
JEAN-BAPTISTE JANISSET
Born in 1990, Jean-Baptiste Janisset lives and works in Marseille. His work interrogates collective memory, in particular colonial and religious legacies.
From France to Africa (Senegal, Algeria, Benin, Gabon…), he traverses cities and territories in search of “witnesses”: emblems, sculptures, coats of arms, motifs inscribed in public space. On site, he makes imprints that become sculptural archives: stigmas or syncretic compositions, born of performances where memory, gesture, and encounter converge. Lead, plaster, copper, or zinc—sometimes combined with LEDs—lend his works a sacred aura, invoking both animism and the aesthetics of relics. His practice explores tensions between resilience and fragility, sacred and banal, history and belief, breathing vital energy into sculpture.
During his residency, he conceived a series of sword-sculptures based on imprints taken around the château of Le Tremblay:
LÉA JULLIEN
Born in 1996, Léa Jullien is an artist and composer, active between Paris and Zurich. Her practice revolves around performance and installation, with the ambition of creating spaces that are both sensory and sensitive.
She is interested in issues related to urban planning and public space, in both their social and technical dimensions. Sound recording occupies a central place in her practice: it becomes a tool for documentation and archiving, particularly of places or cultural events, often within a collaborative framework. Inspired by concrete and electronic music as well as cinema, her work also draws on the writings of Juliette Volcler, Maryanne Amacher, Brandon LaBelle, and Paul B. Preciado.
For this exhibition, Léa Jullien has created Note from stay, a sound installation composed from recordings made within the gallery space.
Her residency at Le Tremblay will take place in November 2025.