Chaises brings together artists working across sculpture, painting, drawing, sound, and installation — united by a shared interest in the spatial logic of social life.
Paris-based multidisciplinary creative and the originator of Chaises. Through daily observation of Luxembourg Gardens, Jimmy identified the silent choreography of the green metal chairs — the social geometries that form and dissolve each day without direction. He conceived the project’s vision and supports its realisation across five simultaneous art outputs.
Allard van Hoorn (b. 1968) is a Dutch, Paris-based sound, installation and performance artist. His practice centres on Urban Songlines — a long-running series of collaborative performances that translate buildings and public spaces into music through site-specific sound generation, examining inclusion, belonging and our claim over the public domain.
Work has been presented at Tate St Ives, Whitney Museum, MAAT Lisbon, Van Abbemuseum and major biennials worldwide. For Chaises, Allard serves as creative director and leads the installation design and sound composition layer. He connected the project to the analytical framework of William Forsythe's One Flat Thing, reproduced and the OSU Synchronous Objects project.
Charlotte Tampol is a Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary artist working in oil painting, printmaking, photography, and tattoo. Raised by a single mother and grandmother, her experience as a white-passing half-Asian woman shapes work that explores femininity, misogyny, and the sublime.
Drawing on art history, feminism, and Filipino tattoo culture, she uses her practice to navigate the different worlds her ancestry inhabits.
Quinn Lewis is a multidisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, New York. In his work, Lewis finds complexity in the mundane, highlighting significance in common objects and routine through careful observation and personification. Drawing on an interest in simple machines and sequential storytelling, Lewis combines sculpture and animation to create layered, kinetic apparatuses.
Following his undergraduate degree at Bard College, Lewis aims to pursue work in printmaking and graphic novels, bringing his practice to social and accessible avenues. For Chaises, Quinn brings his eye for the poetic weight of everyday objects to the project's sculptural and kinetic dimensions.
Jessica Anne Schwartz is a New York- and Paris-based artist. For more than three decades, her work has been widely exhibited and acquired and is held in private and public collections. Her work has been featured in The Paris Review, Artists Magazine, London Art Roundup, and other publications.
Working across drawing, painting, sculpture, and land-based installation, Schwartz explores the interrelationships of sound, color, form, sensation, and memory, rooted in a lifelong experience of synaesthesia. Her diverse bodies of work are united by an ongoing inquiry into perception and the ways sensory experience can become visual language.
In 2023, Schwartz spent a year returning to the chairs of the Luxembourg Gardens, using them as a fixed listening post for Synesthesia Drawings of Luxembourg Gardens. The works are sensory recordings of the gardens’ living soundscape — the choreography of the Sénat chairs, children at play, footsteps on gravel, the rustle of newspapers and picnic lunches, birdsong, wind through the trees, and the subtle textures of sun and rain. Transcribed in gouache, sumi ink, walnut ink, and mica on heirloom Murillo paper, each mark in color and form corresponds to a specific sonic cue.
For Schwartz, sound moves through space as three-dimensional mobiles of color and form. She describes her process as “butterfly-netting” the most beautiful-looking sounds and pinning them to paper, transforming an ephemeral experience into a vivid and enduring visual record. Twelve drawings from the series are currently on view.
Wayne Pate is a self-taught artist who has lived and worked in Brooklyn since 1992, with a spell in Paris in 2018–19 and three years in New Zealand. A native Texan, he came to painting by way of graphic design, and the line has stayed at the centre of the work: classical shapes, earth-toned colour, still lifes and figures reduced to a few marks, painted mainly in acrylic on paper and linen. Alongside painting he has made prints, wallpaper and ceramic tiles in collaboration with Studio Four NYC, Balineum and Atelier Vime.
He is represented by Armature Projects (New York), The Finch Project (London and Bath) and Tourrette (Paris). For Chaises, Wayne painted the show’s emblem — a seated figure on a slatted garden chair, scratched in white line through black paint on kraft paper.
Chaises is supported by the New to the Wall Foundation — a private foundation dedicated to collecting, exhibiting, and supporting contemporary artists. The foundation commissions new work and produces cross-disciplinary projects, partnering directly with artists to realise ambitious ideas.
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