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Sensitive Cartographies – Jewellery, Body and Inner Landscap

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ExhibitionsSpecial eventsPerformances Vernissage on Saturday October 3rd 2026 from 19:00 to 21:00
Highlights
  • Performance  | 
  • Meeting with the artists  | 
Le Syndrome de Stendhal 18 Rue Stendhal
75020 , PARIS

Informations

Opening: 11:00 — Closing: 19:00

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Five women artists, working across contemporary jewellery and object, photography, and performance, explore intimate and psychological landscapes through a sensory and poetic approach. Rooted in the body and introspection, their practices engage with questions of identity, memory, and oppression.

Through the tactility of materials, layers of memory, and intuitive forms, they shape a sensitive world in which each piece maps a fragment of the intimate. Jewellery, beyond ornament, becomes a message, talisman, or constraint, in dialogue with the body and the social space.

The exhibition unfolds as a sensory labyrinth, bringing together objects, photography, natural elements, sound, and text. Visitors are invited into a poetic wandering where the intimate meets the collective, guided by a body in tension, in movement, or in transformation.

 

Artists


Julia Boix-Vives

Julia Boix-Vives, a French artist based in the Netherlands, develops a multidisciplinary practice that resists any single reading. Her work moves between sculpture, video, performance, and jewellery. She explores the tensions between visual art and jewellery, redefining ornament and its relationship to the body. Inspired by the ritual of a woman before her mirror, she creates a dreamlike, often humorous universe where gesture is central. Her jewellery combines beauty accessories with metals and precious stones in a relational, sensual, and performative approach.

Clémentine Despocq Knigge

As a jeweller and visual artist, Clémentine sees jewellery as a precious carrier of stories and emotions, a true companion. Trained at AFEDAP in Paris and at HEAD Geneva, she combines traditional techniques with contemporary design. Since 2017, she has been handcrafting her pieces, exploring materials and their transformations: mother-of-pearl meets metal in a process of experimentation and metamorphosis. Her hybrid works emerge from the interplay of forms and colours, in search of harmony. Alongside this, she develops a more free and sculptural practice, where jewellery becomes a form of artistic and engaged language.

Isabelle Gillieaux

Isabelle Gillieaux is a Belgian visual artist. She creates hybrid pieces from objects drawn from the feminine sphere. In her repertoire of imagined objects—at once delicate, sensual, and dissonant—fragments and materials merge or collide in combinations that blend refinement and bad taste, seduction and repulsion. She also creates (un)wearable sculptures and accessories that question the contemporary body and its transformations. Trained as a psychologist, she studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Charleroi (BE). Winner of the Baron Paulus Prize in November 2025.

Jeannette Knigge
Jeannette Knigge (NL, 1973) has been a goldsmith since 1996 and graduated from the Art Academy in 2001. She combines her work as a visual artist with her jewellery practice, KunstGoud. In 2022, she joined the MASieraad programme (PXL-MAD Hasselt, Belgium), graduating Summa Cum Laude in 2024 with Performing Identity, a collection of body-related objects. This period expanded her artistic vision and brought new momentum to her practice, leading to international recognition. Her materials are chosen through research and experimentation, guided by what the work seeks to express.

 

Philippine Schaefer

Photographer and visual artist, Philippine Schaefer creates photograms through performances on light-sensitive surfaces. The body is both subject and medium, an interface between the visible and the invisible. Born in 1970 in Westphalia, Germany, she has lived and worked in Paris since 1991. A graduate of ENSBA (1997), she studied with Christian Boltanski and Marina Abramović. Over time, performance gradually replaced sculpture in her practice, while photography became its witness. Her images, produced in the darkroom, emerge from the alchemy of body, light, and matter, resulting in unique prints exhibited internationally.