“The ocean on one side is wild With foam and glitter, and inland among stones”
- Seamus Heaney
For the occasion of the Summer exhibition at 10N in Menorca, I invited Loup Sarion (b. 1987, Toulouse, Fr; lives and works in NYC) and Michel François (b. 1956, Sint-Truiden, B; lives and works in Brussels) to engage in a conversation—two artists of different generations who share a deep sensitivity to materials, space, and transformation. Though emerging from distinct contexts, both artists approach the object not as a fixed form, but as a porous site where tensions—between structure and fluidity, control and accident, intimacy and distance—can unfold. At the heart of their affinities lies an investigation into how matter behaves and communicates. Sarion’s sensual, often bodily forms echo a contemporary baroque, channeling softness and immediacy. François, meanwhile, navigates systems and disorder, orchestrating everyday materials into poetic disjunctions. Their shared interest in the aesthetics of instability becomes a connective tissue throughout the exhibition. The practices of Loup Sarion and Michel François converge here in a dynamic dialogue on material transformation, gesture, and the elusive boundaries between permanence and impermanence. Both artists, through different aesthetic strategies, interrogate the status of the object, the body, and space itself.