Plus One
To celebrate its first anniversary, Antipode Gallery asked 5 of its most popular artists this year to each invite a “Plus One”, an emerging artist they want to support.
The collection features 10 limited edition prints (series of 30), size 50x70 cm (20x28”), each at the price of €100 ($120).
Antipode Gallery asked each duo to select a nonprofit they want to support and give back 20% of the sales to.
The collection is available until the end of August exclusively on our website.
Delphine Denereaz + Opale Mirman
Delphine Denereaz
Delphine is a textile artist based in Marseille. She was part of our Massalìa exhibition. She holds a Master’s degree in Textile Design from La Cambre in Brussels where she learned to weave with recycled materials. Today, Delphine Dénéréaz is making waves with her weaving, collaborating with contemporary culture with a touch of humor to present the art-form in a way never seen before. She is inspired by Marseille streets, football, motifs, logos, symbols from the Internet as well as by her own teenage memories. Her works have been exhibited in Brussels, Cologne, Tokyo, Hong Kong, and France, and she has recently been invited by Gucci to recreate the brand’s designs for the Gucci Sneaker Garage.
Opale Mirman
Delphine has invited Opale Mirman. Born in Sète in 1995, she lives and works between Marseille and Sète.
Opale Mirman's work explores the representation of gender, femininity, sexuality and love within rituals, traditions and folklore of diverse origins. These rituals are the starting point of a process of anthropological and plastic research that leads to the creation of ceramics, paintings, installations and performances. She reappropriates habits and customs and proposes a plastic and performative tragi-comic universe.
Solidarité Femmes 13
Delphine and Opale are supporting Solidarité Femmes 13, which has been accompanying women who are victims of domestic or sexual violence and their children in the Bouches-du-Rhône region.
Teresa Escobar + Jessica Krichelle
Teresa Escobar
Teresa Escobar is a neon artist originally from Mexico. She moved to New York in 2012. She was part of our Women Show collection. She sees the fragility of neon light tubes as a metaphorical representation of human sensitivity. She fires the glass in order to bend it and create simple shapes that carry a long history and baggage of meanings. Like her female breasts that represent women and express the variety, uniqueness and beauty of them all. The glass tubes are eventually filled up with gases, and the various colors of the light reveal these shapes.
“It is an objective of mine to hold a sensitive conversation through this somewhat untraditional medium while keeping in mind its art-historical relevance. Neon in the art context has largely been associated to male artists, and to advertisements in the public realm; I seek to converse with both of these contexts while injecting, interweaving and revealing a feminist narrative as a final result. The concept of "enlightenment" - as Plato describes when Socrates is seised by an idea in "The allegory of the cave" - is a narrative that is also present in my work, and I like to experience this "revelation" when I see my completed pieces finally light up.”
Jessica Krichelle
Teresa has invited Jessica Krichelle. Jess Krichelle was taught neon fabrication and design by Lili Lakich and tube bending from Michael Flechtner, two of the neon community’s most innovative artists. She was the Lab Supervisor for the Museum of Neon Art in Glendale, California and is now a Neon Technician at UrbanGlass in Brooklyn, New York. She is a member of the artist collective, She Bends, the first of its kind to feature a cast of womxn identifying artists in neon. Heavily influenced by the lure of sea life, Jess has been working with fluorescent airbrush paints to create synthetic dreamscapes to accompany her neon sculptures.
Her work challenges the false dichotomy between art and science. Influenced by structures found in nature, her art explores the intersection of natural and synthetic, environmental and man-made, and the organic and chemical.
Reef Restoration Foundation
Teresa and Jess are both ocean lovers so they chose a charity that helps ocean conservation. The Reef Restoration Foundation regenerates damaged coral reefs on the Great Barrier Reef, Australia by establishing ocean-based coral nurseries.
Cary Fagan + Aaron Anderson
Cary Fagan
Arizona-born and Houston-based, photographer and filmmaker Cary Fagan was part of our Black Gaze Matters collection. He has already racked up substantial industry credits; contributing visuals for Solange’s “When I Get Home” project as well as shooting the cover of A$AP Rocky’s 2018 album “Testing” – the latter which landed on Billboard’s top 20 album covers of the year.
Despite already receiving major accolades from the industry, the visual artist reveals his roots are much more humble. He credits his dad as the reason he first picked up a camera. Describing his work as “timeless”, Cary explains that “it holds memories” and that he hopes people “will gain insight to what they are going through and how they relate” when they look at it.
His work has been exhibited in several group shows, including ”The New Black Vanguard: Photography between art and fashion” and “There is enough for everyone”, and he landed a place on the coveted 2019’s “Dazed 100” list.
Aaron Anderson
Cary has invited Aaron Anderson. (A)aron Anderson is a Georgia-based Fine Art photographer who only shoots using film. Here's a short rundown of his history with photography. Originally, He was introduced to photography in 2010 during his sophomore year of high school when he wanted to explore new mediums of art. He began with humble means, naivety, and the pure desire to explore photography. He shot a massive amount of work with a myriad of digital cameras for about 6 years and then, in 2016, He made the decision to switch formats and shoot only film. Which, he fell madly in love with and has been shooting ever since. His works express inner dialogues and feelings that he ponders over. He is known for his work containing a lot of emotion, as well as, capturing his subjects in a very nostalgic and delicate way.
Black Girls Code
Cary and Aaron chose to support Black Girls Code, whose vision is to increase the number of women of color in the digital space by empowering girls of color ages 7 to 17 to become innovators in STEM fields, leaders in their communities, and builders of their own futures through exposure to computer science and technology. Their objective is to train one million girls by 2040.
Florent Groc + Floriane Ricard
Florent Groc
Florent Groc is a graphist and painter based in Marseille. He was part of our Massalìa exhibition. He grew up in the hills of Marcel Pagnol and has since been fascinated with wild and profound landscapes. He creates his intricate panoramas working with gouache paint, felt pens, pencils, as well as collage. His clients include Hermès, Carven, La Serviette Paris, and he has exhibited at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, Double V Gallery in Marseille, and Villa Noailles in Hyeres.
Floriane Ricard
Florent has invited Floriane Ricard. Floriane Ricard is a multidisciplinary visual artist who lives and works in Marseille. She seeks out materials, the mark of time on vintage papers, accident and chance. The first and crucial step of her work is to create her mediums, in an experimental way, without any precise goal. Then forms appear and come play with the substances. She cuts or tears - detaching herself from any precise gesture - and trusts chance. By letting go, she creates her very own vocabulary, and orchestrates, gathers, reconstructs. Sometimes representing landscapes, her pareidolia are invitations to dreamy wanderings.
Colineo
Florent and Floriane chose to support Colineo, an association of Protection and Education to the Environment and Sustainable Development mobilized by the preservation of the hills of the Chaîne de l'Etoile and the Massif du Garlaban around Marseille and Aubagne.
Charlotte Lapalus + Memòri Studio
Charlotte Lapalus
Charlotte Lapalus is known for her intimate portrayal of femininity and warm tones that became indicative of her distinct and idyllic style. She was part of our Massalìa exhibition and of our very first collection in support of Covid-19 NGOs.
Charlotte Lapalus’s aesthetic and vision bring a graceful and warm lighting in the heart of her photographs. Represented by Iko agency, she shoots landscapes and architecture pictures as well as fashion and beauty always in a warm, soft, intimate and elegant way. At the core of her art lies a deep interest in humanity and women empowerment. For over five years, she has helped French nonprofit Autour de l’enfant to foster the empowerment of women by campaigning for change and providing training, education, and securing sustainable jobs for the women affected by female genital mutilation in Senegal.
Memòri Studio
Charlotte has invited Memòri Studio. Founded in 2020, Memòri is a studio where different craft disciplines meet with the idea of constantly questioning practices and their transmission. It is an ode to remarkable traditions and to a craftsmanship anchored in a particular territory. The studio aims at reviving a collective memory, making memories vibrant again. On the borderline between the edition of objects in very small quantities and the creation of a wardrobe composed of unique, modular and unisex pieces, the exploration continues around the scenography and a selection of vintage objects and furniture. Memòri is a small-scale artisanal studio with the sole aim of integrating a sustainable approach to fabrication and production into its practice. memòri promotes Provençal textile typical savoir-faire such as quilting work like the “piqué”, the “Boutis” or the “piqué de Marseille” as well as the ancestral savoir-faire of Moroccan craftswomen, specifically the ancient art of women's rural pottery from the Rif mountains, where pieces are fired at low temperatures in an open fire for more than 12 hours, and the art of weaving and vegetable dyes from the Anti-Atlas.
Autour de l’enfant
Charlotte and Memòri Studio chose to support Autour de l’enfant, whose mission in Africa is to build health centers to save women and children. In Marseille, they are responsible for informing parents and training doctors on all the pediatric pathologies.
