The Salon 2024

Grace Kalyta & Camille Soulat

October 17th - 20th, 2024
Booth 2.01 ☆
30 bis rue de Paradis, 75010, Paris, France

Pangée is delighted to be invited to participate in The Salon, by NADA & The Community for its first edition ! For the inaugural edition of The Salon, Pangée presents Grace Kalyta (Montréal, Canada) and Camille Soulat (Montreuil, France).

Both artists are inspired by the rural environs of their respective upbringings; for Kalyta, in Manitoba, Canada and for Soulat in Allier, France. As Soulat writes: “The rural milieu does not simply emerge as a mere backdrop to the drama of existence, but as a protagonist, rich in tradition yet laden with the tensions of modernity and the inexorable pull of social mobility.”

Aesthetic standards are another convergence in their practices, particularly in the context of self-presentation, high-low dichotomies, subcultures, and belonging. Soulat explores contemporary codes and iconographies, tracing their contours in relation to identity-making and transcendence of class. Kalyta engages self-design and opulence, merging material pursuits within the tangle of class and status distinctions.

Documentation by Hugard & Vanoverschelde