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Artist as Demiurge

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Maison Bailly Paris Apartment
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ARTISTS CIRCLE | 31 OCTOBER

From Beirut to Kyiv: Art Across Borders

We’re excited to welcome @adrian_pepe, a textile artist who will be joining our next Artist Circle live from his hometown in Beirut.

Adrian will share insights into his artistic practice, his fascinating exploration of textiles, materials and cultural heritage, and his recent experience participating in the Kyiv Biennial.

At a time when artists are navigating conflict, displacement and uncertainty, this conversation offers an opportunity to explore how artistic practice can connect people, places and experiences across borders.

Artist Circles are about more than listening to an artist talk. They’re a space for honest conversations, exchanging ideas, asking questions and learning from each other’s creative journeys.

While Artist Circles are primarily organised for our Abandoned Artists community, this time we’re delighted to open the conversation to artists and creatives beyond our membership.

Participation is free, but if you’re joining us as a guest, we’d really appreciate a small donation at checkout to help us continue creating opportunities like this for artists.

📅 Saturday, 31 October 2026
🕐 1:00–2:45 PM (UK time)
🎨 Guest artist: Adrian Pepe
Hosted by Abandoned Artists CIC

Register through the link in our bio.

Massive thanks to @maropsyr for a meaningful connection that seeded this collaborative event.

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The second of four sections of 𝘖𝘧𝘧𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘴, our current exhibition in Paris dedicated to the phenomenon of ex-voto, approaches the question of religious address through the Marian figure. An object of sometimes fervent devotion, the Virgin crystallises contradictory imaginaries in which virginity, motherhood, pain, and sexuality coexist in a state of permanent tension. The presented artists – Adrian Pepe, Alix Marie and Pauline Curnier Jardin – rework these attributes to propose other representations of the female body, freed from the ideal of purity while retaining the protective power of the votive figure.

Discover the remaining sections in our upcoming videos, or watch the full exhibition walkthrough with the curator @camille.brechignac on our YouTube channel. Link in bio 🔗

𝘖𝘧𝘧𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘴
On view until October 31

Featuring works by Mirna Bamieh, Jimena Croceri, Pauline Curnier Jardin, Alix Marie, Guadalupe Maravilla, Nazilya Nagimova, Nika Neelova, Daniela Ortiz, Adrian Pepe, Dove Perspicacius, Carlota Sandoval Lizarralde, Hugo Servanin, Yan Tomaszewski, Nomin Zezegmaa

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My favorite kind of Sunday in Lebanon

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The Sky Cult series by Adrian Pepe, presented by Maison Bailly

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La Derrota Siempre es Breve Club Social.
En junio llegué a @skowheganart sin un proyecto definido, en la espera que aparecieran direcciones.
Aprendí la técnica del fresco, algo que quizás no vuelva a hacer. pero un oficio que me enseñó una lección sobre la pintura, la plástica y la tradición.
En Agosto, acompañado de amistades pintamos una mesa de pin pon y fuimos vencedorxs/vencidoxs sobre esa tradición.
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The Defeat Is Always Brief Social Club
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I arrived in Skowhegan in June without a project, waiting for directions to appear. I learned the technique of fresco, which I may not practice again, but it taught me a lesson about painting, the plastic arts, and tradition.
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In August, with friends, we painted a ping-pong table and, on that tradition, we became winners and losers
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📸 @adiblausteinrejto @jose.manuel.mesias @eva.mab @ok.jia @tmhdy

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🇦🇪 Throwback to my visit to the 2023 edition of @sharjaharchitecture (SAT02) ‘The Beauty of Impermanence: An Architecture of Adaptability’ curated by @tosin.oshinowo where some of my pictures were on show as part of the installation ‘La Balsanera - Productive Floating House’ by @naturafuturarq and @bambastudioarq.

It was a memorable event meeting with some camera mates @edmundsumner @laurianghinitoiu @ieva.saudargaite.douaihi and also spot @reubenj.brown modelling in a couple of pictures 👀

A new edition opens this November and I can’t wait to see what will be featured this time round.
Here are some of my favourite images from that trip:

01-02 Concrete Tent, DAAR (Sandi Hilal & @yasser_alessandro_petti)
03 Earth to Earth, Sumaya Dabbagh
04 Resource Autonomy, @henryglogau + @aleksander_kongshaug
05 Anthropocene Museum 9.0, @cave_bureau
06 Utility of Being: A Paradox of Proximity, @adrian_pepe
07 Film screening at Mirage City Cinema
08 3-Minute Corridor, Wallmakers
09-10 Super Limbo, @limboaccra
11 Raw Threshold, @albordearq
12 Eta’Dan, @hive_earth
13 Archive: The Work of Alan Vaughan-Richards, Ola Uduku & @michaelcollinsarchitects

📸 Photos @francescorussophoto

#SharjahArchitectureTriennial #SAT02 #BeautyOfImpermanence #SharjahArchitecture #UAEArchitecture

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The summer was filled with encounters, echoes and embodiment - land, animal, body, process and people made it so special. I feel grateful for such a sensitive and generous creative team that allows us to expand, contract and interweave along the journey of FELT RELATIONS.

The week up in the mountains with the shepherd Sarah Müri was such a rooting and beautiful experience and the residency at Dansomètre a great gathering with finally the whole team.

Thank you Sarah Müri, @nereagurrutxagaarruti , @adrian_pepe, @laurebetris , @a__n__so, @anna.rothlisberger.39, @dansometre and @tanzplanost

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cet artiste s’est habillé en jésus pour réaliser cette œuvre

c’est le travail d’adrian pepe qu’on a découvert à l’expo offrandes chez nika project space

je t’explique pourquoi il a fait ça!

retrouve toutes les infos et d’autres expositions sur notre app CUR8!!

#ExpoGratuite #ExpoParis #ArtContemporain #PourToi #CUR8

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This first season came to life because each artist entrusted us with a work, a process, and a way of imagining different worlds through textile, thread, and dye, connecting hands, head, and heart. Together, these became @p.a.t.t.e.r.n.s.of.l.o.v.e.

Thank you to each of you for bringing this project to life:

@annalisa.bollini.2hands2tails
@adrian_pepe
@begrims
@ellisschoonhoven
@fibra.research
@francesv.h_mohair
@ishraqzraikat
@kaimuraiofficial
@lunordstudio
@morii.darshan
@nico_mazza
@_ound_
@thepalmist.club
@valeriebarkowski

With much appreciation and love,

Sharon & Odette

And now, with this first season complete, we are ready to begin the process of creating the second. We look forward to discovering what it will bring and where it will take Patterns of Love next.

Photos: @studio.olijf

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Tomorrow, Friday 25 September, artist Adrian Pepe will discuss his practice and the work he made for Everything for Everybody @generatorprojects with @gerschultzj and @monotown for our closing event, 14:00-16:00. All welcome!

Adrian Pepe is a Honduran fibre artist based in Lebanon. His artistic practice is an ongoing investigation into process and material. Through his work, he interweaves nature and culture to create objects as tools to enable an open discourse on materiality, our morphing cultural landscape, and the present condition. Pepe’s work is rooted in textiles, spanning site-specific installations to durational performances. By directly engaging with the sentient providers of raw materials — whether plant or animal — Pepe forges relational ties that manifest in objects and events imbued with artistry, sweat, perspiration, mythology, and symbolism; transforming acts of making into speculative, embodied rituals that test and extend our understanding of material agency, ecological intimacy, and the poetics of labor.

Supported by the St Andrews Centre for Art and Politics, the St Andrews Centre for Contemporary Art, and the Centre for Global (Post)socialisms, Southeast, Central, and East European Studies.

All images courtesy and copyright Adrian Pepe.

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Today, as we celebrate Adrian Pepe’s birthday, we turn our attention to Jesus el héroe, 2025, currently on view as part of 𝘖𝘧𝘧𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘴 at NIKA Project Space, Paris.

Born in Honduras and based in Lebanon for many years, Pepe draws on the visual language of Catholic devotion, bringing together attributes traditionally associated with both Jesus and the Virgin Mary within his own body. Standing on glass bottles, in reference to Christ walking on water, while wrapped in the Virgin’s blue mantle, the artist brings these familiar religious codes into a single image. In doing so, he invites us to reflect on how these symbols continue to circulate through popular culture today.

Adrian Pepe, Jesus el héroe, 2025 Digital print 82 x 127 cm

Discover more works by Adrian Pepe on our website 🔗U

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