CLAY, PIGMENTS & FLUFF

CLAY, PIGMENTS & FLUFF : GROUP EXHIBITION

OPENING : 08.10.2025 | 6 to 8 pm | 15 rue du Page, 1050 Brussels

EDJI Gallery is pleased to present a group exhibition with Claire Nicolet, Iris Marchand, Jacques Merle, Aran Quinn & Shishi San on view October 8th to November 8th, 2025.

Since the opening of the gallery, EDJI has focused primarily on figurative painting. With Clay, Pigments & Fluff, we set out to expand our own boundaries by working with artists whose mediums we had not yet explored. What brings these artists together is a shared commitment to figuration in its broadest sense -whether through figures, landscapes, objects, or fragments of daily life - and a refusal of realism in favor of atmosphere and imagination.

Across the exhibition, the figure appears and dissolves in different ways. In Marseille-based Aran Quinn’s ceramics, giant-like clay bodies embody both tenderness and humour caught in moments of intimacy. Jacques Merle translates the scale of his monumental murals into small painted panels where mythological beings drift through layered, dreamlike scenes. The material play continues in Shishi San’s tufted textiles vases, which weave pattern and folklore into tactile narratives. Iris Marchand’s recycled fabric works hover between figuration and abstraction, transforming found textiles into compositions that feel used, spontaneous and precise. Finally, Claire Nicolet’s balanced landscapes open up quiet spaces of contemplation, where light and colour become subjects in themselves.

Together, their works suggest a renewed vision of figuration—one shaped as much by material process as by perception and imagination.

Clay, Pigments & Fluff is on view at EDJI Gallery, Rue du Page 15, 1050 Brussels, October 8 to November 29, 2025.

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