Zoé Kiner-Wolff
Zoé Kiner-Wolff is an artist trained in jewellery-making and art history.
Their artistic research centres on the concept of appearance through the creation of jewellery, masks and costumes. By drawing on myths and stories to embody them with their own body, their practice reflects on the fantastical potential of adornment. They blend mineral and organic materials to forge connections between beings. Thus, the objects and characters they create are attempts at ephemeral metamorphoses, to journey to another world and return. Their artificial beings come to life in performances, tableaux vivants and photographs linked to their work as a live model; through these staged scenes, they seek the interstices between movement and stillness, the intimate and the external, beings and things.
At the same time, Zoé is undertaking a PhD thesis in art history on ‘performative jewellery from 1967 to the present day’.
François Briand
François Briand is an artist and glassmaker. In 2026, he joined the ArtxScience collaborative research programme with Crealab at the University of Strasbourg.
His practice combines sculpture, design and glasswork. From the symbolic, physical, and scientific richness of glass and its applications, He crafts stories that straddle the line between reality and a poetic imagination.
By reinterpreting scientific and fictional literature, he deploys metaphors that resonate with his era, combining traditional craftsmanship, DIY, and digital technologies. His luminous and moving objects, crafted from a motley assortment of materials, help to create a bizarre sense of humour. His work explores glass, a seemingly inert material that shapes our communications, our observational tools and our machines, and even influences our bodies and our emotions.