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Artist’s Work At The Show Summer 2026 
Each season, a selection of artist’s work helps to bring to life the fashion trend spaces. Enhancing these areas of the show and bringing a new voice into the mix, their work will further display the visual trends of today.
Let us introduce you to the two incredible artists whose work will be featured in the trend spaces, Lull and Happenstance. We’ll share their backgrounds, their inspirations, and your first look at the artist’s work you’ll be able to discover this summer!
Parisian artist François Grange is a 2025 graduate of l’Ecole nationale supérieure des Beaux-arts de Paris. He has also studied at Central Saint Martins and the Slade School of Fine Arts in London. François is currently in residence at POUSH in Aubervilliers, and has shown his work at the Musée Delacroix, Palais des Beaux-arts, Galerie HD, and Galerie Strouk in recent years.
Drawing upon forms from the stage or its margins, as well as fan culture and the entertainment industry, François creates small-scale installations that directly address the viewer. He blends film, sculpture, video, performance, and collage to interrogate the spectator on the conditions under which one consents to fictional reality.
“Geste de fan – chat”François is deeply interested by the forms of the theater, drama, and popular entertainment. He enjoys exploring this moment when the spectator accepts, against all odds, to suspend disbelief in the artificial mechanisms whose inner workings remain fully visible. François’ work has been further informed by his recent experience as an usher in a theater. This has shifted his attention towards the peripheral spaces of performance, notably the lobbies, corridors, and waiting areas of theaters.
The position of fans also occupies a significant place in François’ work. Through re-enactments and imitations, he envisages the fandom as an active space for contemplation.
Through humble materials and modest apparatuses, François creates pieces that oscillate between sculpture and stage prop. He is interested in what remains of emotion and spectacle when the special effects feel fragile, precarious, or voluntarily exposed. His pieces transform shapes from mass media and the entertainment industry into small-scale situations that establish an intimate, almost confidential connection with the viewer.
A selection of François’ work will be featured in the Happenstance trend space this season, helping to further demonstrate the concepts of this trend.
The Franco-German artist, designer, and scenographer Carlyn Eden began her academic career with a preparatory year at UAL Central Saint Martins. She then specialized in Architecture in London, before going on to study Architectural Design at the Gerrit Rietvald Academie in Amsterdam.
Whether dealing with climate, socio-political, or philosophical issues, she uses her preferred mediums of writing, audio-visual production, sculpture, and painting to explore the transposition of information into space. Across these mediums, Carlyn’s work resonates with her personal connection to the ocean and its coasts. She focuses on the creation of sensory installations. Through them, she questions the relationship between humans and natural elements transformed into resources. Carlyn examines their exploration and the neural-scientific phenomenons that ensue.
“Cera”The project Carlyn will display in the Lull trend space is an extension of her earlier work, “Sanded”, which focused on the sand extraction on the seabed. She has turned her attention more specifically to the abyssal environment in the deep sea. This space and its ecosystems are currently threatened by deep-sea mining operations. Metals extracted from there are found in many of the objects that shape our everyday lives. And yet, their extraction remains largely invisible to us. Their presence within objects that surround is equally concealed and intangible.
This abyss hosts an infinite diversity of species that remain largely undocumented. Each new expedition reveals previously unknown forms of life. Deep-sea mining is threatening these ecosystems, some of which may never recover.
In her latest work, Carlyn asks herself what forms these abyssal lives might have taken. Could there have been life forms similar to oyster shells? Where knowledge and images are lacking, imagination fills the void. When observed, these shells seem to contain traces of something that has disappeared. They invite the viewer to wonder what kinds of life once inhabited them.
These speculative presences do not seek to scientifically reconstruct extinct species. Instead, they explore the spaces left vacant by our limited knowledge of the deep ocean. Situated between disappearance, projection, and invention, Carlyn’s work questions what extraction might erase before we ever have the chance to know it.
We are so excited to discover these artist’s work this summer in person! Thank you to François and Caryln for sharing their stories and a glimpse into their universes with us. Get your pass to see them for yourself at Playtime Paris June 27-29!
Looking for more inspiration? Check out these artist’s whose work was featured at our past events.
