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Discover the Fondation Pernod Ricard's Nouveau Programme

Liberty Adrien © Monique Sarazin ; Saodat Ismailova © Lorenzo Palmeri, 2024 ; Alexandre Khondji, autoportrait © Alexandre Khondji ; Hélène Yamba-Guimbi, autoportrait © Hélène Yamba-Guimbi.
Liberty Adrien © Monique Sarazin ; Saodat Ismailova © Lorenzo Palmeri, 2024 ; Alexandre Khondji, autoportrait © Alexandre Khondji ; Hélène Yamba-Guimbi, autoportrait © Hélène Yamba-Guimbi.

In 2025, a new chapter begins at the Foundation!

The Fondation Pernod Ricard is pleased to announce artists Saodat Ismailova, Alexandre Khondji, and Hélène Yamba-Guimbi as the first participants of its Nouveau Programme, curated by Liberty Adrien.

Continuing its commitment to the contemporary art scene in France, the Foundation is inaugurating the Nouveau Programme, an evolution of its Prize, affirming its desire to support artists over the long term, through rethought formats and renewed support methods.

In a collaborative and curatorial approach, the Fondation Pernod Ricard entrusts each edition of its program to a guest curator, responsible for inviting three artists.

The program revolves around a group exhibition in the Foundation's spaces, accompanied by critical work in advance and personalized follow-up after the exhibition.

A book will be published for the occasion, including previously unpublished texts on each artist, as well as original contributions and unpublished translations into French, extending the reflections of the exhibition.

In addition to the exhibition, each artist will receive tailor-made support to develop a specific project (production, residency or exhibition), in partnership with institutions in France or abroad.

Finally, thanks to the partnership with the Centre Pompidou/MNAM, the artists' works will join the national collections through a donation by the Foundation.

 

Sorry Sun
First Edition of Fondation Pernod Ricard’s Nouveau Programme

16.09 → 31.10.25
Opening on September 15, at 6PM

With Saodat Ismailova, Alexandre Khondji and Hélène Yamba-Guimbi
Curator: Liberty Adrien

"Drawing on fragmented narration, layered stories, and shifting temporalities, the practices of Saodat Ismailova, Alexandre Khondji, and Hélène Yamba-Guimbi trace a cartography of disruption. Spanning moving image, installation, and sculpture, their works allude to the fault lines of our time—the erosion of collective ideals, disillusionment with technological promises, and the urgency of the ecological crisis—while popular beliefs, stories, and rituals resurface as fragments of memory and subtle forms of resistance. Suspended between clarity and ambiguity, the familiar and the intangible, their gestures seem to inhabit an intermediate space. The exhibition Sorry Sun unfolds on this very threshold, its title evoking an ambivalent light: at once tender and scorching, revealing and disorienting, vivid and weary."
Liberty Adrien

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