Looking Back at the Juvenars Prize
On June 16, 2022 at IESA arts&culture, 1st-year Bachelor Art Expertise and Trade students saw their year-long project come to life with the Juvenars-IESA Prize!
The Juvenars-IESA Prize has supported young artistic creation since 2016. It promotes artists under 30 without a gallery. The winner receives a grant of 3000 €, is exhibited for a month in the IESA arts&culture gallery, and a work is shown at a contemporary art fair. The prize is funded by an auction organized by the other half of the class.
This year, the winner is Zoé Métra.
Auction
We are pleased to inform you that first-year students at IESA arts&culture are organizing a charity auction.
The sale will take place on Wednesday, June 30, 2022 at 18:00, in the IESA hall at 1 cité Griset, Paris 11th.
Please find the catalog here.
This event will fund the Juvenars Prize grant, helping young artists make themselves known in the art market world.
Zoé Metra Winner & Auction on June 30
Meeting with Zoé Métra
Zoé Métra 2022 Winner of the Juvenars-IESA Prize:
Can you introduce yourself in a few words?
My name is Zoé Métra, I am 25 years old and I live and work in Paris.
I was born in Lyon, the city where I also attended the Beaux-Arts, majoring in art. I graduated in 2021.
Tell us about your project. How would you define your style?
For the Juvenars-IESA 2022 prize, I presented a video installation titled NO SLEEP FOR DREAMRZ. One faces a screen-window in which one can see one’s reflection superimposed on the projected image.
The video shows a young girl addressing us in a long monologue in which she questions a certain reality between what she sees on social media and what she experiences in everyday life.
In the form of a confessional, she shares her doubts, typical of a generation raised on images, overwhelmed by those same images that leave a feeling of powerlessness in the face of hard-to-reach standards.
Through media such as video, installation, photography and sculpture, my work draws up a set of portraits questioning a certain reality through reinvented mythologies. The diversion is not an inverted or carnivalesque staging but a presentation of representations: revealing the flaw in images and pointing out the gap between the idealized cliché and the real. The recorded portraits highlight characters who evolve in worlds apart.
"Freaks" who tell themselves stories in reaction to a standardized world in which they don’t tick all the boxes.
My installations tend toward the creation of alternative, sensitive worlds, in which environments, small ecosystems made of objects/tools and images, evolve, recreate themselves and fade away to protect the one who fantasizes and to cushion a sometimes brutal reality.
Where does your inspiration come from?
I draw a lot of inspiration from those close to me, from what I see on the internet and on television, from teenage and intimate imagery…
What does this nomination mean to you? Significant visibility?
This nomination does indeed mean visibility for me but also an encouragement to keep creating, as I do.
The winner receives a check for €3000, what will you use this sum for?
This sum will be used to buy equipment so that I can continue working on my projects.
What can we wish you for what comes next?
The best!!!
