NSFW proudly presents the group exhibition “LOTL: Living Off The Land” featuring Yue Lingjun, Yang Yue, Nicolas Foix, Paul Rousseau, and Flavien Desray.
The exhibition is part of the international residency program “Saison 6” by MO.CO Montpellier Contemporain. Each year, the program enables five recent graduates from MO.CO. École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts (ESBA) to expand their professional networks within the contemporary art field.
This year’s edition of “Saison 6” is presented in collaboration with the 13th edition of GIBCA – Gothenburg International Biennial for Contemporary Art 2025, Röda Sten Konsthall, and NSFW.
-Yue Lingjun (b. 1993, Sichuan) is a Paris-based artist working across photography, video, and installation. Her practice focuses on the intersection of personal narratives and the migratory histories of plants, while exploring the fluid and complex relationships between humans, nature, and technology. Through a performative and ritualistic approach to photography, she reflects on colonial histories and migratory conflicts within the broader context of globalization.
Yue holds degrees from the China Academy of Art and the École des Beaux-Arts de Montpellier. Her work has been presented at Parallèle Festival in Marseille, Paris Design Week 2025, Galeries Lafayette in Paris, and the Lishui Art Museum in China.
-Nicolas Foix explores concepts of instability, technicality, modularity, and movement, drawing inspiration from architecture and urban planning. By working across different scales and integrating the spatial elements of each site, Foix examines the relationship between what we define as a model and a finished artwork. His practice pays close attention to mediality and incorporates architectural concepts such as the “oblique function” to explore how his sculptural works and drawings relate to their surroundings and the movements within them.
-Flavien Desray (b. 1994, Versailles, France) intertwines his background in carpentry and fine arts in his practice. Based in Rodez, France, Desray explores the notions of gesture, labor, and tools through sculpture and performance. Often working with metal and wood, he plays with the cyclicality of artistic creation, where one sculpture inspires the next, dissolving any fixed chronology of which work came first and forming a continuous loop with no clear beginning or end.
-Yang Yue is a multidisciplinary artist working between France and China. Through video, sound, and photography, Yang explores memory, identity, and the entangled relationship between human activity and the natural environment. Her work often documents the environmental impact of industrialization, creating perceptual tension through juxtapositions of body and machine, sound and space, to evoke both emotional and critical reflection.
-Paul Rousseau dissects everyday objects and mass-produced icons in his work. Through drawing, painting, video, and installation, these often banal elements are deformed and recomposed until they become ambiguous symbols. His practice moves between what he describes as “a playground and an industrial-ludic nightmare,” evoking a universe where familiar things are rediscovered or fall apart. By interrogating the visual language of industrial design and popular imagery, Rousseau reflects on the symbolism found in everyday media and items of contemporary times.