Temporary exhibition
© yann beauvais
Let's protest !
EDSON BARRUS ATIKUM
yann beauvais
BIANCA DACOSTA
RESIDENCY OCT 27TH–31ST, 2025
EXHIBITION NOV 6TH 2025 –FEB 12TH 2026
The exhibition
Manifestons ! is a call to action. Artists urge us to (re)learn how to see nature and defend it. A call from Nature present in their works, to awaken the senses and consciences. A collective cry, echoing that of Frans Krajcberg throughout his career as an artist-activist.
Manifestons ! is an appeal to our sensibilities. A sensory experience inspired by Brazilian neo-concretism. The public interacts with the works, which combine sculptures, installations, performances and objects derived from performance, photographs and video projections. The exhibition creates a dialogue between interior and exterior spaces, blurring boundaries and inviting natural elements to reclaim their rightful place: earth, trees, seeds, charcoal, natural resin and bioplastics. Here, art is an intimate journey, far removed from its traditional representations.
Manifestons ! is a call to rethink our relationship with the world, based on a poetic, experimental, and committed proposal. Planting a tree becomes an artistic gesture. The material, contemplated, recycled, or reinvented by the artists, is transformed and renewed. The exhibition becomes a space for dialogue where we are invited to become, in turn, witnesses, spectators, spokespersons, or actors.
The residency
From October 27th to 31st of 2025, the Espace Frans Krajcberg will become a living workshop, open to all. Designed as a shared creative space, the residency invites the public to witness the various creative processes, interact with the artists, and learn about their research. The exhibition will be constructed day by day, combining earth, wood, bioplastics, projected images, sounds, and objects from the performances.
The artists will deploy forms that question our relationship with nature and commitment. They will explore disappearance, life, the transformation of materials, and our collective responsibility in the face of ecological upheaval.
This residency is part of a dynamic of transmission, where visitors are not mere spectators but participants in a dialogue, in a changing space that is part workshop, part laboratory, and part commitment.
The agenda
Meetings with the artists will take place from October 28 to 31, 2025, at the Espace Frans Krajcberg, followed by several highlights: a round table discussion with Edson Barrus Atikum on November 8, with Bianca Dacosta on December 4, a listening session of the L’Oreille Nue podcast on December 17, a meeting with Yann Beauvais on February 4, 2026, and a lecture by Stephen Rostain, specialist in the Amazon rainforest, the date of which will be announced shortly.
© yann beauvais, Bianca Dacosta et Edson Barrus Atikum
Let's protest ! is the result of a Franco-Brazilian creative residency, bringing together for the first time artists Edson Barrus Atikum and Yann Beauvais, who live in north-eastern Brazil, with Bianca Dacosta, a Brazilian living in Paris. Combining sensitive materials and stories of the region, the exhibition explores the links between art, nature, memory and activism, in direct resonance with the work of Frans Krajcberg. Particular attention is paid to a Brazilian tree that is now endangered, the Imburana.
In this era of global warming, the environmental struggle requires us to bear witness to the transformation of life. ‘Manifestons ! is a sensitive response from three artists, oscillating between observation, cry and poetry.’ Yann Beauvais
© Bianca Dacosta
Edson Barrus Atikum
was born in Brazil in 1961. A multimedia artist, his work is driven by cultural and ecological activism. Exhibited in Brazil and at several international cultural venues including La Maison Rouge, the Centre Pompidou, and Ygrec in Paris, he founded Espaço Bcubico in Recife with Yann Beauvais, dedicated to new media arts.
With his CERCAVICA project, he plants cuttings from the endangered Imburana tree in museums in Brazil and France. Combining art, ecology, and territory, he has published in several magazines (Arte e Ensaios, Item, Global Brasil, etc.). He is also the administrator of the online platform Manifestons !
His photographic narratives focus on the gaps in the news, on unexpected stories or on the existence of socially excluded, stigmatized populations, or those grappling with the consequences of contemporary conflicts or dilemmas.
yann beauvais
was born in Paris in 1953. He now lives and works in Recife, Brazil. A filmmaker, critic, and independent curator, he has created more than sixty films and multi-screen installations.
Co-founder of Light Cone (Paris, 1981), Scratch Projection, and B3 with Edson Barrus Atikum (Recife, 2011), his work explores the moving image, memory, and political engagement.
In France, he has recently exhibited at the Palais de Tokyo (Paris, 2023), Ygrec (Aubervilliers, 2022) with Edson Barrus Atikum, and the Mucem (Marseille, 2022). His works are part of numerous public collections and specialized video libraries in Paris, Cardiff, and Oberhausen, including the Centre Georges Pompidou, the Museum of Modern Art (New York), the Cinematek Royale de Belgique (Brussels), and the Cinemateca Pernambucana (Recife).
Bianca Dacosta
was born in Brazil in 1986. Her installations, paintings, films, and photographs are based on memories of landscapes and the people who inhabit them, from a political, post-colonial, and anti-extractivist perspective.
Her work, informed by historical, scientific, and experimental research, navigates between images of nature threatened in the Anthropocene era, fantastical representations of colonized lands, and organic forms. She creates new spaces for projecting a world that can still be imagined, sketching a reconciliation between humanity and its environment.
A graduate of Parque Lage in Rio and the Ecole du Fresnoy in France, she has been selected for several residencies, including the Villa Arson in Nice in 2021, the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the Mairie du 5e arrondissement de Paris, and the Fondation Kymia in Marrakech in 2024. She has exhibited at the Quadriennal of Performance Design and Space in Prague, UNESCO, Espace Frans Krajcberg, CENTQUATRE, and Carreau du Temple in Paris, as well as at the Grandes-Serres de Pantin and the Fondation du Doute in Blois.