Fortuit Fortune

Four artists, selected to attend the GENERATOR professional certification training program run by 40mcube art center .The exhibition Fortuit Fortune offers visitors the chance to discover the works they have created and to explore different perspectives on their artistic practices. About Through the lens of sculpture and installation, Zoë Grant explores how our domestic environments shape our sense of self. By repurposing materials and forms drawn from interior design, she highlights how decoration contributes to the commodification of identity. The artist constructs structures from melamine, glass or reconstituted wood: hollow volumes, resembling hollowed- out vessels or ghostly furniture. By adopting the standardised dimensions of worktops or mass-produced units, she explores how a slight disruption – a misalignment, a shift, a missing form – can disrupt our relationship with the objects around us. This work seeks to overturn material hierarchies, between what is termed ‘poor’ or ‘noble’, useful or decorative, visible or relegated. Her installations offer no definitive answers; they open up spaces of doubt and shift, where familiar objects become the fragile witnesses to our projections and desires. Ruimin Ma’s work stems from the observation that we view the world through screens. Through painting, sculpture and installations, she explores how these images shape our perception. Phones, interfaces, compressed images and digital fragments become materials in their own right. By integrating them into physical objects, she creates situations where the real and the virtual overlap without ever coinciding. Her works create a tension around human gestures. Painting, touching, looking through technical systems that already shape the way we see. Humour plays a central role here: it acts as a counterpoint, a way of resisting the slick, efficient logic of contemporary images. Born with a hearing impairment due to a maternal genetic condition, Fleur Mautuit explores in her work the duality of collective experience set against the uniqueness of her own perception. Responsive to the shared difficulties faced by the women in her family, she places at the heart of her work the unique legacy of this disability that touches generations. Through a process of transmission and personal sharing, she reveals the invisible bonds that forge an intergenerational sisterhood, whilst affirming her position as a socially engaged artist. Her creations, both digital and printed, are soaked with her personal experiences and place the audience at the heart of the process. Regarded as an essential participant, the audience is invited to take part in a sensitive dialogue. The artist demystifies the taboos that surround external perceptions and invites a light-hearted and compassionate exploration. Publications, videos, sound... every medium serves as a platform for exchange, fostering the extension of her ideas and emotions. Through an installation practice that brings together various techniques related to the production and dissemination of images, Nino Spanu’s research revolves around the notions of impermanence, trace and identity, whilst questioning the materiality of memories. His work highlights the intersections of individual identity, the intimate and the personal, with the various frameworks – bureaucratic, economic, technological, environmental – that dictate our shared reality and our way of perceiving the world. Drawn largely from his personal archives, his explorations of the nature of identity – when and by what means is it forged? – reveal a fundamental search for what is missing, another absence, a vague impression of a distant presence. Read more Toggle Installation Multi-disciplinary