To celebrate the transition between winter and spring, the gallery Les filles du calvaire presents, in March 2025, a showroom featuring the works of Abdelhak Benallou, Arielle Bobb-Willis, Léo Fourdrinier, and Maya Inès Touam. Organized in its historic space at 17 rue des Filles du Calvaire, this exhibition highlights a variety of practices – painting, photography, sculpture, and stained glass.
Abdelhak Benallou, born in 1992 in Chlef and living in Paris, creates canvases with precise realism, where portraits and still lifes reflect a meticulous attention to detail. Through a subtle play of light and shadow, he offers an intimate vision of the visual elements that inspire him.
Born in New York, Arielle Bobb-Willis has used photography as a means of emancipation for nearly a decade. Inspired by Jacob Lawrence, she stages figures in atypical postures to explore notions of beauty and isolation, playing with vibrant colors. Now based in Los Angeles, she travels across the United States to capture urban and rural scenes.
Léo Fourdrinier, born in 1992 and based in Toulon, combines classical forms with technological elements by merging metal, stone, and plastic. He reinterprets universal symbols from the past to question the perception of the present and the future.
Born in France to Algerian parents, Maya Inès Touam explores her identity by connecting the shores of the Mediterranean. A graduate of the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris, she conducts research blending anthropology and imagination through photography, drawing, and sculpture.
