Every year since 2014, the Emerige Revelations Grant, created by Laurent Dumas, has been awarded to an artist under the age of 35 from the French scene who is not represented in a gallery. In less than ten years, this distinction has truly established itself as a springboard for the younger generations. This year, it is the painter Johanna Mirabel, born in 1991, who will be accompanied by the Nathalie Obadia gallery, partner of this edition.
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Johanna Mirabel, Living Room n°14, 2022 Oil on canvas, 205 x 220 cm. Press
A graduate of the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2019, Johanna Mirabel won the support of the 2023 jury, composed of Laurent Dumas (Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Emerige), Nathalie Obadia (founder of the gallery of the same name), Éric de Chassey (Director General of the Institut national d'histoire de l'art, Paris), Damien Deroubaix (artist), Sandra Patron (Director of the CAP, Musée d'art Contemporain de Bordeaux) and Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (collector and President of the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy). The winner will receive a studio for one year and a €15,000 endowment to help her have her first solo exhibition at the Nathalie Obadia Gallery. Her works explore the interior, the home, which the artist sees as a connection with the world. She depicts her loved ones and family in an intimate setting exposed to the public. Canvases that do not give the impression that the spaces enclose, but on the contrary, that they open up to something completely different. The home becomes a door to the outside, while remaining a comforting zone.