A straight line made up of impacts

Through a multidisciplinary practice centered on drawing, Jeanne Held explores the subtle forms of transformation linking the inert to the living. In her solo exhibition A Straight Line Made of Impacts, at Espace Larith (Chambéry), she stages the tipping points where the living seems to petrify — where stone holds the imprint of an organic memory.

To disrupt the instant way we usually perceive images, she opens a breach, a pull that invites us to leave the surface and explore the fault lines beneath. Paradoxically, the straight line reveals itself as a multitude of imperceptible ruptures. It bears witness to a world of minute movements, where apparent order emerges from the slow disorganization of matter.

Erosion, crystallization, sedimentation, dissolution, deposit. Here, the smallest transformations can give rise to unexpected configurations. Entropy is no longer a loss, but a generative force — revealing matter's capacity to produce its own image-states, inscribing within its surfaces the deep memory of time. Jeanne Held accompanies these metamorphoses, letting matter write its own language: chaotic and silent.

Réseau 12/12/12 MAPRAA / 6 ème édition 2026

As part of the 18th Lyon Contemporary Art Biennale, we are presenting the 6th edition of the MAPRAA 12/12/12 network. 12 artists / 12 venues / 12 departments.

Following the same principle as previous editions, during the Biennale and in connection and ‘resonance’ with it, MAPRAA is reviving this network of exhibitions across the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, featuring artists who have taken part in the MAPRAA exhibition cycle. However, this year, 12/12/12 – taking place against a particularly challenging backdrop for the visual arts – has been scaled back to 7/7/7.

Unfortunately, some venues that usually take part are not included in this edition. Their absence in no way reflects a lack of interest or commitment, but rather highlights the precarious realities facing many independent cultural venues today. Many venues are currently going through periods of uncertainty that limit their ability to take part in this kind of initiative, despite their fundamental role in the artistic ecosystem.

This programme therefore celebrates not only the venues that are present, but also those that have now disappeared or those that have been prevented from taking part, yet which continue nonetheless to embody the vitality and resilience of a cultural landscape that needs to be recognised, supported and preserved.

Alain LOVATO, President of MAPRAA