Mehdi Babaei, Iran
Mehdi Babaei is an Iranian visual artist who has been living and working in France since 2021. Introduced to the art of Persian miniature painting by his father during childhood, he developed an early and profound passion for painting, which became his main form of expression. After beginning his artistic studies at the University of Arts in Tehran, he continued his training in France at the École des Beaux-Arts de Versailles, where he graduated in 2024. In 2025, he obtained a professional diploma in fresco and in-situ art from the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris.
At the core of his practice lie the notions of memory, time, and the perception of space. His work has evolved naturally from the human body and portraiture toward nature and still life, in resonance with his daily environment and lived experience.
Seung Won Kwon, South Korea
Kwon obtained her IGCSE and International Baccalaureate Diploma at Hanoi International School. After initially beginning her studies at the University of California, San Diego, she fully turned toward the arts. Since then, she has been admitted to the Master’s programs at the Royal College of Art, the University of the Arts London (Chelsea and Central Saint Martins), as well as the Beaux-Arts de Paris (ENSBA, 3rd year), where she is currently enrolled. More recently, Kwon obtained the National Diploma in Art from the École Nationale Supérieure d’Art de Bourges with the highest distinction, 20/20, Congratulations from the jury, while simultaneously pursuing a degree in philosophy at the University of Paris Nanterre (via distance learning).
SEHAJ MALIK, India
Sehaj Malik is a fourth-year student at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Her work follows a protocol-based approach, exploring organic mechanisms through performance drawings that are intrinsically linked to the place of their creation. Often working with charcoal, her practice develops through the physical movement of the body, pushing it to the point of fatigue.
Malik’s practice investigates space through the movements of her body, using iterative charcoal drawings to map gestures. Her work emphasizes process over outcome, allowing traces of movement to reveal a dynamic interplay between presence and absence. Each mark on the surface informs the next, creating a layered dialogue of movement and spatial awareness. She describes her works, “I placed my body in continuous motion, a kind of trance that plays with elements of control and chaos
Nazanin Pirmohammadi, Iran
Nazanin Pirmohammadi is an Iranian artist based in France. After studying in Tehran, she obtained her DNAP from the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2025. Her work, at the crossroads of photography, video, and installation, explores social and political issues, particularly those related to the condition of women.
Nourished by both the personal and the collective, her practice delves into the tension between invisibility and the desire for visibility, between presence and absence, light and darkness.
Overall, her works construct a sensitive visual language in which lived experience and thought, technical mastery and letting go, find their balance.
Yashaswini Puthanpurayil Chakkapoyyan, India
Indian artist Yashaswini Puthanpurayil Chakkapoyyan is currently studying at the Beaux-Arts in Paris in the studio of Tatiana Trouvé/ Chloé Quenum. She develops a practice combining painting, sculpture, and mosaics, where memory becomes a spiritual concept. Through the repetition of patterns, she seeks to preserve what has been forgotten, transforming forms into markers of time—from seconds to days, to the resonances of nostalgia.