Maison LELEU
For this exhibition, the Spaceless Gallery is invited by Maison LELEU to open a dialogue between contemporary art and exceptional design. Conceived as a conversation rather than a juxtaposition, the exhibition unfolds within Maison LELEU’s recently inaugurated showroom, where heritage, materiality, and contemporary creation naturally intersect.
At the Spaceless Gallery, we work through a nomadic and context-driven model, conceiving each project in close resonance with the architecture, history, and craftsmanship of the space. Showing these works at Maison LELEU felt particularly meaningful to us, as it allows contemporary artistic gestures to be inscribed within a lineage of savoir-faire, transmission, and a long sense of time.
The exhibition brings together works by Quentin Derouet, whose works from his series "Persée" are created using charcoal and walnut stain sourced from his own forest. These luminous fragments emerge from darkness through a contemporary chiaroscuro, engaging light and time while conversing with the history of painting. Four works by Lucian Moriyama extend this dialogue through scagliola, a Renaissance decorative technique that he masterfully reinterprets, integrating precious stones and mineral elements into a singular contemporary language.
Works by aurèce vettier explore the meeting point of craftsmanship and technology, where AI-generated forms are translated into bronze, evoking fragments of a recomposed, augmented nature. Throughout the exhibition, pieces by Olga Sabko assert a strong sculptural presence, grounded in material experimentation and a sensitive attention to time, its traces, and its inherent uncertainty. Three sculptures by Morgane Pasqualini, shaped by organic and vegetal forms, reflect a timeless elegance rooted in nature, antiquity, and the Mediterranean, resonating intuitively with the spirit of the Maison.
The sculpture Venus by Gabriel Sobin, carved from lava stone, anchors the exhibition in a primordial relationship to mineral matter, while the paintings of Aleksandra Szewczuk open onto interior spaces of perception, where abstraction becomes a meditative and deeply personal experience.
Through this curation, we sought to create a fluid passage between contemporary art and haute decoration, between memory of form and present-day expression. Together, Maison LELEU and the Spaceless Gallery propose an exhibition where materials, gestures, and histories intertwine.
