J’aime plus l’été, Paris


J’aime plus l’été
, july 2023. 
Group show with Pauline-Rose Dumas, Victoire Inchauspé et Bastien Pery.
Curating by Emma Brisot and Hippolyte Sadrin. 
© Nicolas Brasseur.

Through the train window, memories emerge — elusive, caught in the ebb and flow of our thoughts. Ephemeral landscapes pass by, escaping our grasp. Faces follow one another, fading and blending in a fragile calm where contours dissolve. Each person carries within them their own melancholy: some flee, seeking to escape the hold of memory and free themselves from the weight of the past; others return home, to where time has stood still. Still others travel onward, eager to relive the thrills of past summers and awaken the echoes of southern embraces. A train journey can offer this: to sink into the cathartic sweetness of melancholy, so often close to happiness.

Sosthène Baran’s atmospheric landscapes carry the taste of memory, inviting emotional release. Through his work with multiple layers, specters emerge — playing with our perception and the ambiguity between what we wish to see and what we believe we see.

Emma Brisot.
 
© Sosthène Baran 2026