The École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris and the École nationale supérieure de la photographie d’Arles continue their partnership with an exhibition titled Paradis artificiels. The show brings together around twenty students and recent graduates from both schools, presented across various spaces of the Beaux-Arts in Paris. Paradis artificiels unfolds as a wandering exploration of technology—particularly artificial intelligence—and the profound transformations it brings across all levels of society. In artistic practice, the exhibition focuses on the creative misuse of tools and techniques as a field of possibilities, with prompts opening new poetic and imaginative freedoms. More broadly, the exhibition reflects on artifice and on a hallucinatory world where disasters, fake news, and seas of plastic populate both social media feeds and newspaper pages.
With students and graduates of Beaux-Arts de Paris
William Basseux, Léonard Berthou, Lea Citi, Simon Deterre, Lea Farant, Eric Godin, Chia Huang, Anjeyanne Huynh, Shumeng Li, Melina Malheurty, Olivier Perusat, Ilona Plissonneau, Ingrid Portal, Colombe Thaller, Emmanuel van der Elst
With students and graduates of l’ENSP
Ulysse Barry, Aure Baucher, Cécile Blaque, Jingyu Cao Jingdi, Mathis Clodic, Valentin Derom, Fiona Faivre, Orane Grunenwald, Eva Sustar, Morgane Ubaldi, Charlotte Van de Walle, Baptiste Vitorino, Samuel Vorms
Beaux‑Arts de Paris
The École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris is a place for artistic training, experimentation, exhibitions, conservation, and publishing. Its five-year program combines the foundational elements of artistic practice with the challenges of contemporary art. The school’s unique teaching approach is based on studio work led by renowned artists and on the diversity of techniques explored.
The institution holds a collection of more than 450 000 works, regularly presented to the public through exhibitions and loans, within a listed architectural complex.
École nationale supérieure de la photographie d’Arles
Founded in 1982, the École nationale supérieure de la photographie in Arles is the only art school in France dedicated entirely to photography. Open to students with at least two years of higher education, it offers high-level training for photographers, filmmakers, and image professionals. Its demanding pedagogy combines a comprehensive approach to contemporary practices, technical precision, and theoretical reflection, complemented by workshops and continuing education programs for both amateurs and professionals.