Totems d’un monde nouveau

halone is an association under the French law of 1901, founded in 2021 by Guillaume Brevet and Léo Huet. Focusing on the digital arts, it has several fields of action.

Firstly, halone offers support to artists, most of whom are students or at the start of their careers. Behind this support lie several propositions: technical assistance and help with promotion and distribution. With the sharing of knowledge and skills always at heart, halone acts as a partner to the artists it supports. In concrete terms, this means hosting artists in residence within partner structures, providing technical support (equipment, skills, etc.) and giving them artistic feedback on their projects. halone is keen to support new creation and offer it opportunities to develop via our production offers.

Next, halone works on programming through events, exhibitions and residencies. Thanks to the partnerships set up since its beginnings in Marseilles, our aim is to increase our distribution capacities to achieve a rich program that contributes to the democratization of culture, by enabling new audiences (students in particular) to take an interest in contemporary creation.

Last but not least, we are keen to extend our skill-sharing through workshops, and to deploy the works we present to a wider audience (young people, disadvantaged neighborhoods), in contexts that encourage the involvement of these audiences (meeting with artists, practical work, etc.). The aim is not only to bring culture to new people, but also to encourage them to get involved, to seize the tools and skills that will enable them in turn to create and develop an artistic practice.

The artists supported for this exhibition are emerging artists, most of whom have been graduating for less than 5 years. Each has a varied practice and explores different themes and techniques. From contemporary surveillance to the feminine stereotypes conveyed on social networks, they often delve into web culture to nourish their inspiration.

Through multi-disciplinary practices, they come together to address their relationship with the digital world and the questions linked to the development of their identity in this new world. From their different perspectives, the works created come together and echo each other in the Totems of a New World exhibition.

halone is a production and distribution structure in the field of contemporary art, particularly digital art. The association supports emerging artists at the start of their careers, offering them technical assistance and/or help with distribution. With the sharing of knowledge and skills always at heart, halone acts as a partner to the artists it supports.