With artists: Evan Barbedette, Jules Boillot, Heloïse Farago, Alix Le Boucher, Paul Lemaître and Lila Vignot

Hidden behind a tree, sheltered by a bush, trapped in the alcove of a gloomy building or your own silhouette, running in pursuit of your goal, be careful not to put your elbows on the table. Welcome to this escapade where the surreal world of six artists will transport you into their dreams, utopias and memories. This is not a call for vigilance but rather an invitation to pause and contemplate. Leave your bearings at the entrance and don’t expect to get them back. »

Through La Serrure, conceived as a carte blanche for the Collectif DdD, six artists from the young contemporary drawing scene—Alix Le Boucher, Héloïse Farago, Jules Boillot, Lila Vignot, Paul Lemaître and Evan Barbedette—are brought together to create a shared landscape.
Like a cabinet of curiosities, the exhibition brings together unique works by artists discovered through the French-language fanzine scene and scattered across the country. Whether medieval scenes, excerpts from video games, or domestic scenes brought into the exhibition space, the works on display are as much drawings as they are invitations to immerse ourselves in them. Au Travers de la Serrure highlights the role of the visitor behind the fourth wall of images, confining them to their position as spectators, or even voyeurs, due to the impossibility of verifying whether or not they are welcome through the drawing. So lean in, move on, or take the time to witness the scenes before your eyes.

While the motif acts as punctuation in the exhibition space, it does not take into account the rhythm imposed by the different shapes of the supports. Here, the artists offer a vision that reinvents the quadrilateral form in favour of supports that have been gleaned, cut, torn and assembled. Through a vivid, sometimes acidic palette, the works on display evoke both a certain unease and an emancipatory freedom.
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The DdD collective was founded in 2022 by Clémentine Taupin, Clément Morlé and Antoine Graff while they were students at ENSAD in Nancy.
Motivated by the desire to produce a collective edition of drawings based on the reinterpretation of audiovisual extracts, they launched an annual magazine called Cristal Liquide. The project expanded to include a total of ten artists from the same school, giving rise to the name DdD, which stands for Dizaine des Dessinateurs (Ten Artists).

From the second issue onwards, the collective began to invite emerging artists from other schools in the French-speaking world and established an artistic direction that led to an interest in a drawing practice that brought together a dozen artists producing different aesthetics. The second issue therefore focused on drawings with very saturated colours, leaving visible traces of the tools used (felt-tip pens, coloured pencils, pastels, ballpoint pens, etc.). The third and most recent issue, published in 2025, invited visual artists whose drawing practice was ambiguous between surface and volume.

In an effort to serve as a platform for dissemination, the collective regularly attends trade fairs to sell its productions and thus promote the work of guest artists. Having gradually moved away from comics and closer to contemporary art, the magazine now uses the medium
of publishing to forge links between these two worlds. As the works created for the book may be exhibited, the book takes on the dual role of drawing magazine and exhibition catalogue.

Exhibition from 11 February to 25 April 2026

Opening on Saturday 7 February 2026 from 6pm
Open Wednesday to Saturday, 2pm to 7pm
Free admission
Group visits, reservations: starter@lastation.org

© Antoine Graff © Clément Morlé

Pictures of the exhibition