SOLO SHOW | RAPHAËLLE BENZIMRA
In situ 12 March 2026 - 18 April 2026Philippe Jousse and the team at Galerie Jousse Entreprise are pleased to announce the first solo SHOW of Raphaëlle Benzimra, from March 12 to April 18, 2026. On this occasion, we invited Raphaël Bories, heritage curator at the Mucem (Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations), to write a text to accompany the artist’s exhibition.
Raphaëlle Benzimra graduated from the Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2023. That same year, she was awarded the Bertrand Demandolx-Dedons Prize. Her work was presented in 2022 at M93 in Saint-Ouen, at Galerie Jean Collet in Vitry-sur-Seine as part of Novembre à Vitry, and at Tour Orion in Montreuil. In 2023, she took part in the exhibition CRUSH at the Beaux-Arts de Paris and presented works at Le Sample in Bagnolet. She participated in the Encore! Fonds de dotation residency in La Rochelle in June–July 2024. In 2026, Raphaëlle Benzimra will take part in the group exhibition L’Esprit de l’atelier at MO.CO in Montpellier, bringing together students from Djamel Tatah’s studio at the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris.
In her work, the artist explores glory, violence, and spiritual quest through depictions of men in powerful scenes. Inspired by medieval and Renaissance painting, she revisits classical texts such as Paradise Lost and the Bible, highlighting their universal resonance in our contemporary era.
With a style that combines the precision of miniature painting with vibrant colors, her works captivate through their richness of detail and luminosity. Each painting unfolds like a complex mosaic, uniting fragments of narrative into a single visual story. Boxing frequently appears in her drawings and paintings, establishing parallels between that world and biblical tradition, as boxing—like religion—condenses and ritualizes human violence in her view.
Image: Raphaëlle Benzimra, The Demon of Sadness, oil on wood panel, 16.5 × 21.5 × 1.2 cm, unique piece. Photo: Max Borderie.
Vernissage : 12/03/2026 4:00 pm
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