The artist duo Jacent creates domestically inspired large-scale installations where visitors are welcomed as guests. Depending on the context the pair adapts their multidisciplinary proposals which could be named as “total art”. The fusion between art and life has been at the heart of their pursuits since they began collaborating in 2014. They have founded Tonus, an artist-run space based in Paris which perpetuates this state of mind.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
– House Call, Sans titre, Paris (France), 2023
– Don’t Push The River…, Le Shed, CAC Normandie, Maromme (France), 2022
– ...It Flows By Itself, Rolabola, Rouen (France), 2022
– Glücksspiel, Le jeu de l’amour et du hasard, sonneundsolche, Düsseldorf (Germany), 2022
– Cœur fleur, Cocotte, Treignac (France), 2022
– Salon Jacent, Liste Art Fair Basel – Special Guest Programme, Basel (Switzerland), 2021
– A Room of One’s Own, Plat-, Amsterdam (Netherlands), 2019
– Hotel Jacent, PSM, Berlin (Germany), 2018
– L’Oasis, In Extenso, Clermont-Ferrand (France), 2017
– Chez Jacent, Tonus, Paris (France), 2017
– Parade, Harpe 45, Lausanne (Switzerland), 2015
– Legacy, Lokal–Int, Biel (Switzerland), 2014
– 3rd mind myth, Tonus, Paris (France), 2014
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
– Les aspirateurs sont des éléphants sans défenses, Le Houloc, Aubervilliers (France), 2024
– Solstice, Crèvecœur, Paris (France), 2023-24
– Ceramics & Friends, We do not work alone, Paris (France), 2023-24
– Stickers!!, Cocotte, Paris (France), 2023
– House of Dreamers, villa Empain – Fondation Boghossian, Brussels (Belgium), 2023
– Salon d’été with Sans titre, Maison Louis et Olga Carré, Bazoches-sur-Guyonne (France), 2023
– Basel Social Club with Tonus, Basel (Switzerland), 2023
– Still Making Art, Klaipėdos kultūrų komunikacijų centras, Klaipėda (Lithuania), 2023
– Meet Me Halfway, One gee in fog, Geneva, Wallstreet, Fribourg (Switzerland), 2023
– Mamoune, hosted by Sans titre at Pina, Vienna (Austria), 2022
– Mon palais, choir, Sans titre, Paris (France), 2022
– Systema, Cocotte, Marseille (France)
– Illusions of Comfort, Campoli Presti, Paris (France)
– Make Yourself at Home, Sans titre (2016), online, 2021
– Still Time, Fitzpatrick Gallery, Paris (France) 2021
– La Psychologie des serrures, CAN centre d’art, Neuchâtel (Switzerland), 2020-21
– Your Friends and Neighbors, High art, Paris (France), 2020
– Group show, Tonus, Paris (France), 2019
– Les Chemins du Sud, Mrac Occitanie, Sérignan (France), 2019
– Souvenir Art Summer Camp, Spazio Murat, Bari (Italy), 2019
– La Parole et l’écoute, Bagnoler, Bagnolet (France), 2019
– Somewhere in Between. Contemporary Art Scenes in Europe, Bozar, Brussels (Belgium), 2018
– Vous me rappelez quelqu’un, Frac Lorraine, Metz (France), 2018
– Wie werden wir uns wiedererkennen, Künstlerhaus Bremen (Germany), 2017
– Paris Internationale with Tonus, Paris (France), 2017
– On choisit pas sa famille!, Cocotte, Paris (France), 2017
– Canard au sans, Sans titre (2016), Paris (France), 2017
– Culture Pop Marauders, Mains-d’œuvres, Saint-Ouen (France), 2016
– 58e Salon de Montrouge, Le Beffroi, Montrouge (France), 2015
– EDEN unlimited_ tbc.tbc, off ABC art fair, Berlin (Germany), 2014
OTHER PROJECTS & COLLABORATIONS
– CAC Brétigny, saison hors-les-murs, 2025 [installation]
– Le Frac en résidence, Frac Bretagne, Quimper, Douarnenez, 2024 [collective work]
– Basel Social Club communication, 2023 [drawings]
– Postcards, Ancien Évêché, Toulon, 2023 [site-specific installation]
– villa Noailles shop, Ancien Évêché, Toulon, 2023 [shop]
– Cryto Cœur Collection, 2022 [NFT]
– Orange Rouge, collège Daniel Mayer, Paris (France), 2021 [collective work]
– Design Parade 2019, villa Noailles, Hyères (France), 2019 [festival]
– Artists who do books, ENSAD Nancy, 2019 [workshop]
– Feÿ, Rencontres d’arts, Château du Feÿ, Villecien (France), 2018 [festival]
– Design Parade 2018, Ancient diocese, Toulon (France), 2018 [festival]
– Alt_Cph, Fabrikken for Kunst & Design, Copenhagen (Denmark), 2018 [festival]
– Souvenir, Spazio Murat, Bari (Italy), 2018 [talk/event]
– Thursday Best, Bob’s Pogo Bar, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (Germany), 2017 [event]
RESIDENCY
– Maison flottante, Cneai (Centre National Édition Art Image), 2022
GRANTS
– Cnap (House Call at Sans titre, Paris), 2023
– Fondation des Artistes (Salon Jacent at Liste, Basel), 2021
PUBLICATIONS
– Some Flowers, published by Sans titre, 2023
– 461. A Decade of Contemporary Art, Fondation des Artistes, Dilecta, 2022
– La Psychologie des serrures, published by Sans titre (2016) and CAN centre d’art, Neuchâtel, 2021
– Sketches, March—August 2020, self-published, 2020
– Gifaillaer Gimaer, published by par My-Lan Hoang Thuy and Élise Fourché, 2019
– Jade Fourès Varnier & Vincent de Hoÿm, aleï journal – monographs, 2018
– Do Not Iron, Sans Titre (2016) and Unemployed, 2018
COLLECTION
– villa Noailles
CURATORIAL ACTIVITIES
– Founders of the artist-run space Tonus, Paris, since 2014
EDUCATION
– ESAG Peninghen, Paris (France), 2002-2007
– Istituto Europeo di Design, Milan (Italy), 2005