PARIS.- The Fondation Pernod Ricard presents the second edition of Le Nouveau Programme, curated by Salomé Burstein, featuring the invited artists for this edition: Jonathan Martin, R. Moreno, and Clémence de La Tour du Pin.

Le Nouveau Programme—a new long-term initiative to support and promote the contemporary art scene in France

Le Nouveau Programme offers a more dynamic and committed form of institutional support. It reimagines how artists are supported beyond the traditional cycle of exhibitions and awards by providing sustained financial, practical, and institutional assistance over the coming years.

True to its collaborative and curator-centered approach, the Foundation continues to entrust each edition of Le Nouveau Programme to a guest curator responsible for selecting three artists, while ensuring long-term visibility for all the artistic practices it supports.

The programme includes a group exhibition for this edition entitled Over the Top, Undercover, accompanied by a publication featuring a commissioned essay dedicated to each artist.

Beyond the exhibition, the initiative establishes multi-year partnerships aimed at supporting each of the selected artists over the long term. The Foundation commits to providing funding for the realization of a project in partnership with an institution in France—building on the framework established during the first edition and developed in collaboration with DCA (Association française de développement des centres d’art contemporain)—or internationally, while also offering personalized support to foster the development of each artist’s practice.

Finally, thanks to the longstanding partnership between the Fondation Pernod Ricard and the Centre Pompidou / Musée national d’art moderne, the Foundation will acquire one artwork by each artist before donating it to the Centre Pompidou. This enables the artists’ works to enter the national collections through this acquisition-and-donation mechanism, which the Foundation has maintained for more than 25 years.

"Exploring the city, the contours of objects, the spirals of language, and sometimes those of obsession, the works of Jonathan Martin, R. Moreno, and Clémence de La Tour du Pin engage with the systems that shape perception. Each artist identifies and subverts the strategies that guide the gaze, channel desire, and shape existences—in order to disrupt or unsettle the automation of everyday life.

Over the top, undercover explores the tensions within the realm of the sensible: its elasticity, its manipulations, and the interdependence between what is put on display and what remains hidden. The artists examine what mises en scène conceal through seduction, and what they express in code—the mechanisms of the unconscious, of debt, and of delirium. They explore what lies beyond or beneath the surface, in particles of air, the lining of clothes or the inside of handbags.

Over the top, undercover operates on various levels of matter and language. The exhibition moves from horizons to back doors, toward what shapes our relationship to fantasy, domination, and interference. It consists of suspicious, sometimes distorted visions; rotating poems; trompe-l’œil in the subtext. It thus drifts into the undetectable: magnetic waves and affections, operations of transfer, infestation, and short-circuiting."

—Salomé Burstein, curator of the exhibition