Dover Street Market Paris to present the DAISIES group exhibition during Paris Design Week curated by Paige Silveria opening Saturday 6th September.
Presenting an intimate take on the current state of arts and culture, Daisies is a collaborative project, curated by Paige Silveria. Founded in 2018, it consists of site-specific presentations, pop-up book shops/fairs, limited-edition clothing collabs, printed publications and a TV show. It simultaneously exists in the mainstream yet provokes and predicts the mainstream. Projects have been presented in New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Tokyo, Paris and Biarritz.
Featuring multidisciplinary work by international artists of various backgrounds and practices, the 2025 presentations will continue to focus on fostering community and offering a platform to emerging creatives in an array of ventures.
For the group exhibition at Dover Street Market Paris, presented by Salomon Sportstyle, artworks by Camille Soulat, Charlotte-Maëva Perret, Jack Warne, Lucas Dupuy, Sara Yukiko, Mathis Altmann, Melchior Tersen, Christie MacDonald, Nicolas Zanoni, Pierre Touré Cuq and Lisa Boalt will be on display in Basement Room 2B, and a special performance by Gabrielle Schwan will take place at the vernissage.
DAISIES group exhibition opening 6th September Dover Street Market Paris
Curated by Paige Silveria
About the artists
Nicolas Zanoni, a designer born in Paris in 1995, working between Brussels and Paris, he conducts in-depth research on materials to create unique objects. His approach, inspired by brutalism and the dynamic lines of sports and technology, emphasizes tactile interaction with his works. By pushing the boundaries of traditional design, he offers a unique sensory experience and invites us to rethink our relationship with everyday objects.
Born in Biarritz in 1999, and a 2023 graduate of Villa Arson (Nice), Pierre Toure? Cuq lives and works in Paris. For Pierre Touré Cuq, the symbol functions as an active tension: it becomes material to be diverted, defused and recharged. His work as a whole is rooted in a reflection on the way in which forms – whether drawn from an ancient heritage or a contemporary vocabulary crystallise narratives that are destined to falter. Scythes, blades, urban bollards, perfumes and restraint devices are all sculptural elements that reactivate an iconography of power and violence, based on a logic of ambiguity and interpretative porosity.
Mathis Altmann (born 1987 in Munich, lives and works in Los Angeles and Zurich) belongs to a generation of artists whose work is characterized by a strong socio-critical awareness. His installations undermine the illusion of a glamorous, carefree world by allowing viewers to look behind appearances. Altmann creates scenarios full of contrasts from consumer goods, everyday objects, waste, and building materials. This is a subtle play on the traditions of assemblage and collage, which, in terms of content, is accompanied by the representation of a disparate world. The works are based on themes such as abundance, consumption, functionality, and superficiality. The conditions for creative digital work in the environment of an accelerated, globalized urban everyday are particularly important to him. He doesn’t oppose the complexity of the world through simplification, but rather by theatrically exaggerating the abundance of information to the point of grotesquery, creating a complex interweaving of fragments of content and form that play with ambiguities, controversies, and incompatibilities. Mathis Altmann received the 12th Manor Art Prize of the Canton of Zurich.
Jack Warne is an artist (*1995, Cambridge, UK) living and working in London. Jack Warne skillfully bridges two contrasting timeframes – the futuristic realm of technology and a preserved archival past. By merging photographs from his personal history with discovered and self-created materials, Warne crafts a fresh collection using both traditional analog techniques and innovative technologies such as drawing, 3D rendering, and industrial printing. The end result is a captivating presentation that combines images, materials, and sounds, with each element in motion and interconnected with its counterpart. Warne pushes the boundaries of technology by utilizing specially designed augmented reality filters to expand the images even more. He invites this innovative technology to transcend the realm of physical artwork and immerse viewers in a dynamic, multi-sensory encounter. Through this approach, he establishes a connection between the tangible nature of the objects, the observer, and the hidden realities concealed beneath the surface.
Before coming to London, French artist Christie Macdonald (b. 1994) spent eight years in Los Angeles. There, she completed a BA at the ArtCenter College of Design. During her stretch in the U.S., she also participated in the construction of artist studios across Los Angeles, and since then, lives between London and Biarritz, her home town where she co-runs a gallery. With a familial link to architecture, Christie is drawn to the potential dynamism in spaces, of how we can shape a place, adding new narratives to pre-existing histories and ambiences. Macdonald’s source imagery is one of commercial spaces she has experienced firsthand, layered with more abstract visions that reflect ideas or decisions conceptualised in such working environs. This feeling is inherent in her work, each image opening up landscapes/cityscapes/roomscapes – viewers invited to enter each work, to dwell, to find themselves lost in perspective and distances, through a hazy collaging of print and paint.
Human and machine generated touch in combination. The painter as algorithm, manipulating her image generation and material. A proposition to enter these portals to somewhat uncanny realms; passages of production we may know, sites of abandonment, of the remains of a communing, in a space no longer occupied. Seemingly.
Melchior Tersen is a French multidisciplinary artist, working mainly with photography, publishing projects, clothing, and music. Having spent his entire life in the Parisian suburbs, Tersen is vastly inspired by diverse youth, popular and underground movements of contemporary society, which he has documented for the past fifteen years. His work is an iconic reference when it comes to the documentation of underground cultural com- munities. Recently, Tersen expanded his photographic practice by approaching the language of object making. Tersen is also known for his editorial work with recent collaborations, including M Le Monde, Vetements, Balenciaga and Dazed.
Charlotte-Maëva Perret (born 1988, Noumea New-Caledonia) is a French designer and visual artist and is a Visiting Lecturer for MA Graphic Media Design at London College of Communication. Charlotte’s Brandscape Art™ explores invisible languages of resistance often through collections and reconstructions of existing material. ©MP is interested in producing reflective objects and mythologies of collective freedom through what can be described as subversive modes of production and communication.On one hand, the outcomes stand as critical propositions unveiling the machinery of global mass production. On the other, they unveil a creative potential—layers of aesthetic imagination serving as innovative tools for economic, cultural and social change. Trained at the Royal College of Art as a graphic designer and a visual artist, Perret’s skills are both functional and imaginary, an ambidextrousness that allows her to appropriate semiotics as a mean of translation—delivering a currency between economies of culture. Modes of interests include cultural piracy, vandalism, primitivism, hardware, archaeology, iconoclasm, industrialism, labour, branding, celebrities, commodity and the vernacular.
Sara Yukiko (b. 1996, San Francisco, California) is a multidisciplinary artist and designer based
in New York. She earned her BA in Design Media Arts from UCLA in 2018. Working across collage, photography, and sculpture, she explores themes of memory, identity, and perception, often with a touch of mischief.
Lisa Boalt draws on her background in fashion design, approaching her art practice with a sensitivity to material and color. Her work often begins with an exploration of texture, color, and structure—selecting materials much like designing a seasonal collection. After relocating from New York City to France, Lisa’s focus shifted toward building a new life and family. This transition is reflected in her recent larger, more meditative works, each unfolding slowly over time. These pieces embody a contemplative pace, capturing the quiet, layered process of both making art and shaping a life.
Lucas Dupuy was born 1992 in London, where he currently lives and works. His paintings attempt to find an intersection between language and form. There is an influence of Nature within the work which also contrasts heavily with Brutalist architecture and formal elements. There is a layer of anxiety within the work, whether it is reflected in the composition, the tensioand strain between marks, or by the colour palette, that can be very ghostly and eerie, in contrast with the more optimistic and calmer.
Camille Soulat (b 1991) grew up in Montluc?on, France. She is self-taught and uses mediums ranging from digital painting and writing, to video installation. Her practice revolves around an intimate form of narration. She concentrates on nostalgic subjects and scenes with super-natural undertones. Through the diffuse shapes and silhouettes of her digital paintings, Camille exhibits a certain fascination for the transformation of ordinary moments into events. Interested in notions such as marginality, geek culture or adolescence, she directs her practice around an interpretation and a celebration of the codes associated with both pop culture and counterculture.
Gabrielle Schwan, the multihyphenate artist, designer and dancer is doing just that. She’s spent much of the last seven years trying things for fun, and then mastering them — from painting fiery flames on reworked denim that she pored over instead of doing homework, to turning after-work hangouts into design collaborations with her friend’s cult-followed brand, Left Hand, before she even formally knew how to sew. Schwan has restarted a few times in a way that feels familiar for many young artists who lean into the unknown — she traded Washington’s Tri-Cities, where she grew up, for New York at 16 years old, ready to formalize the ballet dancing she’d done since she was a toddler.
