Atelier Andésite (France) — Lava, a living matter and a mineral painting

Since 2012, Céline Martinant has been experimenting with volcanic lava like painting a canvas. With Atelier Andésite, she reinvents the raw material, fusing ceramic know-how, enamelling techniques and stone machining. Her exclusive method melts the lava to bring out organic, mineral, almost painterly textures. Each piece becomes a trace of fire and time, celebrating the relief of the Puys mountain range in the form of unique, sensory sculptures.

Marcela de la Vega – Collectif chilien (Chile) — Algae and glaciers, a matter of warning

A visionary, Marcela de la Vega uses seaweed as a sensitive manifesto on climate change. Using biomaterials derived from local seaweed, starch or pectin, she creates textile works that evoke the melting of glaciers and the transformation of ecosystems. Her pieces are the fruit of a constant dialogue between art and science, between craft experimentation and environmental commitment. An embodied approach, on the borderline between the living and the disappearing.

Suborna Morsheada – Banquet Bangladesh

Suborna Morsheada is a Dhaka-based visual artist whose hybrid practice combines printmaking, textiles, crafts and recycled materials. A graduate of Dhaka University's Faculty of Fine Arts, she works in etching, lithography and wood engraving, while integrating sewing, weaving and the assembly of found objects - used fabrics, wire, jute and plastic.

Her Against All Odds project, created in collaboration with the women of Dhaka's Korail slum, has given rise to three installations - The Phoenix of Renewal, Threads of Hope and Quilts of Resilience - which transform waste materials into stories of resilience and rebirth.

Giuliano Tincani — Italie à l’honneur (Italy) – Precious objects made from coral, sponges, minerals and noble metals

For over 30 years, Giuliano Tincani has been fashioning art and decorative objects from a repertoire of materials as rare as they are astonishing: corals, gorgonians, shells, marine sponges, amber, quartz and agates. In his hands, these fragments of nature become jewellery, lighting or sculptural furniture, sublimated by hand-worked metals - copper, bronze, aluminium or brass.

Far from any superfluous ornamentation, his work highlights the raw, singular beauty of each material, striking a balance between ancient know-how, the re-use of old elements and contemporary design.

Inspired by the spirit of the cabinet of curiosities and driven by rigorous aesthetic demands, Giuliano Tincani creates unique pieces that straddle the border between art, luxury and nature. Long committed to preserving marine ecosystems, he holds the ‘We love Nature’ certificate, a guarantee of his profound respect for the environment.

Tine Krumhorn — De Mains De Maîtres (Luxembourg) – Poetic sculptures in textured cardboard

For the past 20 years, Tine Krumhorn has been giving new nobility to an unexpected material: cardboard. She has renamed this modest medium CarTex - carton-texture - and under her hands it becomes material for creation, sculpture and introspection.
A graduate of the École des Arts Appliqués in Metz, she shapes cardboard until it becomes unrecognizable, wearing it down, patinating it, playing with light to reveal its plastic richness.
Her bas-reliefs Paysages Intérieurs blur the boundaries between photography, painting and sculpture, transforming this recyclable material into a medium for emotions and intimate narratives.
Based in Luxembourg, she pursues a singular and committed approach, acclaimed by numerous exhibitions and awards.

Gabriela Sagarminaga — Sociedad Española de Artesanía Contemporánea (Spain) – Sculptural installations made of natural fibers

In her studio in the Basque Country, Gabriela Sagarminaga reinvents plant fibers - notably esparto, a Mediterranean grass - by modeling them like contemporary sculptures.

Her works, designed for hotels, commercial spaces or art collections, combine ancestral know-how with digital manufacturing technologies. She transforms this humble fiber into spectacular objects, such as a life-size leopard fashioned in esparto, mounted on wood.

Each piece combines natural fiber, noble wood, textile or metal, in an approach that is both sustainable and resolutely contemporary. She makes eco-design a real creative driving force.

Helen O’Shea – Banquet Irlande

Based in Cork, Helen O'Shea is developing a sculptural practice deeply rooted in sustainability issues, particularly those related to plastic waste. Through the transformation of existing materials - notably plastic bottles - she creates organic forms inspired by the natural world, questioning our relationship with the environment.

A contemporary applied arts graduate of MTU Crawford College of Art and Design (2017), O'Shea pursued a master's degree in research focused on alternative narratives around plastic waste.

Alyssa Jos (France), represented by Eric Hennebert — The luxury of plant waste

What if Paris's fallen leaves became a precious material? That's the bold challenge taken up by Alyssa Jos, who recovers leaves swept up from sidewalks to turn them into a poetic textile. Stabilized, cut and woven, these leaves become surfaces rich in texture and emotion. An eco-artistic approach that questions our relationship with living things and gives new meaning to what the city throws away without paying attention.

Idoia Cuesta — Sociedad Española de Artesanía Contemporánea (Spain) – Contemporary basketry from natural and recycled fibers

Trained as a biologist, Idoia Cuesta explores the creative potential of plant fibers, weaving, hybridizing and reinventing them.

Based in Galicia, she grows several species of willow in her own garden for her creations. Her approach blends traditional basket-making techniques with textile innovations, resulting in functional, sculptural objects.

Her works often incorporate recycled materials, affirming an ethical and environmental approach.

Tzuri Gueta - Association du Viaduc des Arts (France) – Lace from the future

Tzuri Gueta, a textile designer trained at Shenkar College near Tel Aviv, has moved to Paris to work with the Trend Union agency. Combining craftsmanship and innovation, he has been creating unique materials for Haute Couture for 20 years, working with Jean Paul Gaultier, Dior, Mugler and Givenchy. His discovery of silicone, a flexible and resistant material, marked a turning point: he invented siliconized lace, a patented technique combining textile and resin. This innovative process gives rise to sculptural, sensual and intriguing creations, at the crossroads of art and fashion.

Anaïs Duplan - Région Occitanie / Pyrénées Méditerranée (France) — Horsehair in luxury weaves

With a keen sense of textile, Anaïs Duplan magnifies horsehair, a rare and complex fiber, weaving it for interior design, fashion and decoration. Between tradition and innovation, her work brings this natural material into dialogue with other noble materials such as straw and leather. She infuses horsehair with a contemporary vocabulary of braids, ribbons and refined textures, supported by the precision of fine craftsmanship.

Antonin Mongin – Bureau du Design de la Mode et des Métiers d’Art (France) — Hair, textile memory

Antonin Mongin revives a forgotten skill: the art of working with hair. Using donated hair, he creates textile materials imbued with identity and memory. By textualizing them with rigor and poetry, he transforms what is often perceived as waste into a profoundly human material. His made-to-measure creations also blend other atypical fibers such as horsehair, sisal and French plant fibers, to create truly tactile and emotional works of art.
Antonin Mongin was the 2017 winner of the Prix de la Jeune Création Métiers d'Art.

Vero Reato / Organic Mineral (France) — Concrete, a sensitive material

As a sculptor of living concrete, Vero Reato transforms this cold material into a medium of organic expression. Her sculptural works evoke coral or cosmic forms, summoning up both the fragility of the living and the strength of stone. In her work, concrete becomes skin, shell and shield. Driven by a strong ecological conscience, she turns this urban material into a poetic and resilient manifesto.

Henar Iglesias — Sociedad Española de Artesanía Contemporánea (Spain) – Feather mosaics inspired by amantecas

Henar Iglesias perpetuates a rare and ancestral art: featherwork. In her creations, feathers become pictorial matter, sublimated without dyes, solely by their natural motifs.
Inspired by the amantecas - pre-Columbian craftsmen expert in feather mosaics - she creates works with strong symbolism, nourished by her family heritage (father a painter, mother a milliner) and her training in mathematics.
Her pieces are not merely aesthetic: they embody a totemic dimension, each feather chosen, sorted and arranged with an almost scientific rigor. Her unique art weaves together history, spirituality and natural elegance.

Claire Caron Mayor (France) — Life reinvented in paper and wool

Sculptor of the illusion of the living, Claire Caron Mayor creates hybrid creatures from recycled paper, local wool and vegetable dyes. Her sculptures, inspired by animal anatomy and her experience in taxidermy, blend scientific rigor with dreamlike gentleness. She also explores secondary materials such as plastic and polyurethane foam to give flesh and poetry to the ephemeral. An ethical and sensory ode to biodiversity.

Ateliers Aurélia Leblanc & Lucile Viaud (France) — Glass weaving, a material of light

From the fusion of Lucile Viaud's geo-sourced glass and Aurélia Leblanc's textile weaving comes a unique material: glass weaving. The duo explores a material between suppleness and rigidity, transparency and opacity, combining bio-sourced yarns (linen, hemp, seaweed, etc.) and recycled glass. Every centimeter of this singular fabric is a dialogue between earth and gesture, architecture and clothing. ALLV is a veritable ode to slow material, fashioned by four hands for art and architecture.

Sophie Blanc Doreuse (France) — The precious anatomy of the animal world

Sophie Blanc makes the most discreet of nature sparkle: twigs, wild grasses, achenes or cupules become delicate golden sculptures. Using a personal technique for gilding plants, she sublimates the fragility of living things, giving them a new perenniality. Each element, harvested at maturity, is cleaned, primed and then adorned with gold leaf. A contemplative, sensitive approach that invites us to rediscover the beauty of detail and the preciousness of our plant heritage.

La Thanatothèque (France) — L’anatomie précieuse du monde animal

Somewhere between jewellery, sculpture and taxidermy, La Thanatothèque is reinventing the naturalist presentation through the technique of ‘éclaté à la Beauchêne’. Marion Arbona and Guillaume Viel painstakingly reassemble the skeletons of insects, crustaceans and sea urchins into works that are both educational and artistic. Combining scientific rigour with jewellery-making expertise, they reveal the hidden complexity of living things, transforming the extinct animal into an anatomical jewel.

S-Kif Studio / Sandy Pouget (France) – Tailor-made decors and sculptures with unusual textures

With S-KIF Studio, paper creator Sandy Pouget transforms spaces through bespoke works in which textures play the leading role.
Working for luxury hotels, private residences and public spaces, she creates decors and sculptures that defy traditional materials. Pigmented concrete, sculpted plaster, sandblasted resins, raw materials or patinas - each work is a sensory and aesthetic experience.
Working closely with architects and designers, she explores the emotional and poetic dimensions of materials, transforming constraints into creative opportunities.