The Tarbais laboratory welcomes three residences of young local artists graduated from ESAD. Second installment in this cycle with Elias Hanselmann and Mallaury Thenier whose first exhibition is.
Omnibus had not welcomed plastic artists in residence since 2017. In 2025, the artistic laboratory returned to this tradition with no less than three residences, as part of the cycle “Those who remain …” “All these young people come from the ESAD in Tarbes, rejoices Erika Breton/, the manager of the associative gallery of rue Bertrand Barère. It allows them to confront the different stages of professional artist’s life. This allows them to make parts that feed the exhibition. And we play our role as a springboard, spreading and communicating to support young creators. In short, a short artistic circuit.
Andy Barréjot
At the end of three weeks of residences, Mallaury Thenier and Elias Hanselmann share the poster of the second opus of this cycle. He works on perception, she more on the habitat. All two, members of the workshop shared the chair, weave an exhibition that is answered, the very first in the career of Mallary, freshly graduated from Esaden 2024. ” Another, I am in a familiar place where I feel comfortable. There are both works that I had made for my diploma and others performed here. I work a lot on habitat, construction, deconstruction but also on the home, the interior. I like to grasp the details but also to confront our senses in our memory, as with these smells that call for our primitive senses. »»
Élias gave him a fairly explosive shadow game that fascinates in the window. “I work around the image, the light, its perception to the visual cortex, the scenography and the surface too,” explains this graduate Tarbais 2022. It is gleaning to play between reality and fiction. I work a lot with strict creations protocols that lead to chaos. »Works that challenge and an exhibition that reassures the creative talents that our territory conceals.
