‘Double Sens’ [‘Double Meaning’] brings together the work of two painters, Nazanin Pouyandeh and Stéphane Pencréac’h. The exhibition juxtaposes their respective visions, each of which is made up of illusions, allusions, and inversions that multiply the possible meanings of their work. 

The two artists have known each other for many years, and share a conception of painting that speaks to a deeply rooted and long-established pictorial current which is only now finding its place in the field of contemporary art. Their captivating figurative painting focuses first and foremost on form as a means of powerfully evoking universal affects and, particularly with this exhibition, the spirit of the age. 

Characterized by an unapologetic attention to detail, their paintings function at once as inner mental landscapes and genre scenes (in every sense of the term) that offer a portrait – that perhaps even literally are portraits – of our present era.