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From 15 June until 13 July 2026

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Anna ZABOUN (UKR), 1997

Aurore, 2025​​

Painting on canva.

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Artificial garden.

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Having recently graduated from the École Supérieure des Arts in Liège, Anna Zaboun paints as a means of escape. Faced with her fears and anxieties about the modern world, she finds strength in painting and draws inspiration from nature to create gardens in which she feels safe. Each painting reflects a part of this garden, which is in reality a utopian, fantastical world born of her imagination. Through each garden, she imagines a stroll filled with visual, auditory and tactile sensations...

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Anna Zaboun explores the intimate relationship between presence and disappearance through plant-based landscapes that become spaces of retreat and protection. Gardens, foliage and fragments of nature come together to form a dense environment where the viewer is invited to seek out what eludes them, what remains concealed behind the appearance of the visible.

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The artist is distinguished by her use of vivid, intensified colours that transform our perception of the landscape. Far from descriptive naturalism, these saturated tones – deep greens, vibrant reds and luminous blues – create a tension between reality and sensation. Colour acts as an emotional language: it amplifies the vitality of living things whilst introducing an almost unreal dimension, where nature seems inhabited by an inner presence.

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For Zaboun, colour is not merely a means of representation; it becomes a tool of revelation. It draws the eye, disrupts familiar reference points and contributes to the immersive experience of the work. In this vibrant space, the viewer oscillates between fascination and contemplation, confronted with a nature that is both welcoming and enigmatic.