Chaises brings together artists working across sound, movement, sculpture, painting, and scenography — 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 scenographic 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.
Ophelia Jacarini (b. 1991, France) is a Paris and Hong Kong-based artist working across sculpture, embroidery, photography, video, and installation. Rooted in seventeen years of classical ballet training, her practice translates movement into lasting form, rendering gesture and motion visible.
Collaborating with dancers through motion-capture, AI, and experimental fabrication, she creates work that holds the tension between the ephemeral and the permanent, the human and the machine. For Chaises, Ophelia develops the generative pipeline producing 3D sculptures and paintings from movement and point cloud data.
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.
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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