Eric Stephany

Studio Archives | Dessauerstrasse, 2012 Inkjet print on tracing paper, tape, charcoal 120 x 92 - unframed Unique piece Print collage of my former staircase studio in Berlin between 2012 and 2014. Private collection * #ericstephany #art #collage #print #studioarchive

Nouvel artiste résident ! Eric Stephany @ericstephany (1970, France), basé entre Paris et Athènes, développe une pratique mêlant sculpture, installation, photographie et performance. À partir de lieux aux fonctions ambiguës, il prélève matériaux et images qu’il transforme en fragments, interrogeant la fragilité de nos abris et notre manière d’habiter le monde. À la croisée de l’architecture et de la psychologie, il propose une approche disruptive de la sculpture. Diplômé de l’École nationale supérieure d’architecture de Paris-La Villette et de l’École nationale supérieure d’art de Cergy, il a exposé en France et à l’international, notamment au Centre Georges Pompidou. POUSH accueille dans ses nouveaux locaux situés au Parc des Portes de Paris, à Aubervilliers, 60 nouveaux artistes. Sélectionné·e·s sur appel à candidatures par un comité de professionnels du monde de l’art, ils ont rejoint, en décembre 2025, la communauté des artistes de POUSH qui rassemble désormais plus de 270 artistes au total. 1 — Portrait © Eric Stephany 2 — Vue de l’exposition personnelle « Shores of Confidence », OMS, Athens, 2022 © Thanassis Gatos 3 —Vue de l’exposition personnelle « La Confiance », La Tannerie, 2022 © Nicolas Bouriette 4 —Prosopopoeia / προσωποποιία, 2020 Marbre pendélique, pièce unique 55 x 33 x 20 Exposition personnelle « La Confiance », La Tannerie, 2022  © Nicolas Bouriette 5 —ΆΣΤΕΓΟΣ (Sans-toit), 2024 Bloc-notes de 300 photographies détachables des halls d’entrée de Polikatoikia 20,6 x 29,3 x 4 - Edition de 20  Exposition « Domestic Panorama », Saint Martin Bookshop, Bruxelles, 2024 © Florent Frizet #poush #aubervilliers #artisteresident #artcontemporain #ateliers

Last Saturday, @deaddarlingscollective gave me the chance to bring one of these pieces out of the studio. The collective creates something truly special by highlighting works made in the process—those we might not usually consider ready to leave the studio. A heartfelt thank you to my dear @jessie.yingying.gong for the invitation, and to @francois_jonquet for welcoming the piece into your thoughtful collection. - L’Esprit d’escalier (ΠΑΝΙΚΟΣ), 2019 Photography Micro-encapsulated pigmented inkjet print on Hahnemühle RAG Ultra Smooth 305 gsm Photo Paper 18 x 24 ( 24 x 30 with passe-partout) - There is something in this image that is both irreparable and perfect. A white glass door lies shattered. Shards of glass litter the floor. A dark silhouette torn from the glass — an unlikely form, half-human, half-animal — stands out from the scene. On the painted glass, barely legible, is graffiti that seems to belong to another era, another story. In 2019, for the solo exhibition ΠΑΝΙΚΟΣ — panic, in Greek — presented at STOA 42, @stoa42 I performed a piece entitled ‘L’Esprit d’escalier’. This expression, inherited from Denis Diderot, refers to the thought that comes too late, to the word found after the fact, whilst descending (a staircase) — a thought of delay, of suspension, of echo — in reverse. Embodying the god Pan on the gallery’s staircase, clad in heels, my body whirling between top and bottom, between animal and ritual, I’m loosing my balance and crashes into a glass door, which shatters on impact. The body precedes thought and, at that moment, in that suspended fraction of time, the glass door suddenly shatters, revealing a concrete wall. The coincidence is too precise to be mere chance: the exhibition is titled ΠΑΝΙΚΟΣ — panic, in Greek. Pan frightens through sound. The sound of shattering glass was his signal. This photograph was taken immediately after the performance. It does not document it — it is its residue. It is not a portrait of the artist, but an imprint that my moving body left on the world as it fell. Here, accident met myth: Pan, god of panic, responded.

⚡️ JONAS LEHEC - @jonaslehec x ERIC STEPHANY - @ericstephany x ACE HOTEL & SWIM CLUB ATHENS - @acehotelathens ⚡️ * Set against the backdrop of the Hymettus mountain range and the Aegean skyline, Jonas Lehec intends to create a compelling contrast of experiences against captured memories. This mural explores the intersection of digital ASCII aesthetics and natural forms through a dithered interpretation treatment. Jonas employs a deliberately low-resolution visual language, reminiscent of early digital graphics and 8-bit gaming. The work’s mosaic-like structure creates a dialogue between ancient artistic traditions and contemporary digital culture. Through fragmented grainy pixels of a low-fi and seemingly unidentifiable place in conjunction with an analog neon sunset, this mural questions our mediated relationship with nature in an increasingly digital world, suggesting how our perception of the natural environment is increasingly perceived, stored and filtered through technological interfaces. * DITHERED LANDSCAPE I - MURAL 2025 4m x 14m Αcrylic paint & Plaster Courtesy : @jonaslehec UNTITLED - NEON 2025 2m Neon, Glass & Gas Courtesy : @ericstephany Neon production : @neonlights.gr * As art consultant for the public spaces of @acehotelathens , a great challenge has been taken of, as of building up and developing a significant and emblematic collection in collaboration with @acehotel and architectural firm @_cigue . * 📸 1 : @diplomates__ 📸 Others : @billgeorgoussis 🖤 Athens 🖤 #ArtDirection #Curating #AceHotel #AceHotelAthens #CiguëAthens

The most beautiful sunset of last year to wish you all the best for 2026 ❤️‍🔥

Το έτος που φτάνει στο τέλος του φέρνει νέες προοπτικές και νέα σχέδια, και η Αθήνα δεν ήταν ποτέ τόσο αγαπητή στην καρδιά μου ❤️ Συνεχίζεται... Διαφάνεια 1 : Λεζάντα βίντεο @_camillerouaud Διαφάνεια 2 : Ένα χέρι γεμάτο αγάπη ❤️‍🔥

A few months ago, the book « Something Vibrantly Alive » was published by @poursuiteed This book, a project by @jeanchristophearcos brings together a number of artists and friends whose practices revolve around minerals and photography. I am fortunate to have a few marble sculptures I made in Athens featured in the book. I was commissioned to write a text for this project in the winter of 2021 as part of the first writing residency of the Rencontres d’Arles, @rencontresarles but in the end, it will not be published, unlike those of my colleagues who were invited to contribute. Such are the vagaries of publishing. So that this text does not remain unpublished, I am publishing it today, and despite the absence of our words, the book is a beautiful compilation of various practices that echo the resonance of stone in the field of photography. - Il y a quelques mois est sorti le livre « Something Vibrantly Alive » aux éditions @poursuiteed . Un projet de @jeanchristophearcos qui rassemble au sein de ce livre, deuxième volet d’une recherche au long cours, un certain nombre d’artistes et d’amis dont les pratiques s’articulent autour du minéral et de la photographie. J’ai la chance d’y montrer quelques sculptures en marbre réalisées à Athènes. Les photographies des marbres pour la publication sont de @melemis . Un texte m’avait été commandé pour ce projet, à l’hiver 2021, dans le cadre de la première résidence d’écriture des rencontres d’Arles @rencontresarles , texte qui ne sera finalement pas publié comme ceux de mes camarades qui avaient invités pour cela. Ce sont les aléas de la publication. Pour que ce texte ne reste pas lettre morte, je le publie aujourd’hui. Et malgré l’absence de nos mots, ce livre est une jolie compilation de pratiques variées qui font raisonner les échos de la pierre dans le champ de la photographie. Slide 1 : « Stumbling » 2010 \ ~ artist’s collection in progress Slide 3 : «RQ2R+CPG Vouliagmeni, Greece», 2022 Marble, metal, glass, olive oil 110x50x18 Slide 5 : “Anticipation”, 2017 - extract Film, India Slide 7/9 : “Awwwe”, 2016 - Photograms, Jericho, Palestine Eng. version in comments 🔻 #artbook #photography #sculpture

Two months ago, I had the pleasure of showing two of my intercom sound sculptures for the first time in Athens, on the occasion of the beautiful exhibition: «  Metropolis and Mental » curated by Frederik Egg and hosted by @f.e.a._initiative and @_osterak Among incredible Scandinavian artists ( Coyote, Benjamin Savi @benjamin_savi , Palle Nielsen, Frederik Egg @frederik_eg , Asta Lynge, Jakob Ohrt @jakobohrt , Marie Vedel, Albert Em & Silas Inoue) and supported by the Danish Institute in Athens A beautiful exhibition to remember. Thank you so much! 💙 1. Frederik Egg «ΜΗΤΡΟΠΟΛΙΤΙΚΗ ΑΙΣΦΗΣΗ», 2025 Prints on IPhone LCD plast, drawing, DIY epoxy of Copenhagen city key, found objects Éric Stephany «ΔΡΟΜΟ ΨΗΧΟΠΑΦΗ», 2025 Found intercom, mp3 player, looping sound file 2. Palle Nielsen « Vejen til byen », 1954, woodcuts Jakob Ohrt & Asta Lynge « 12 AUG 20.35 », 2019 C print, artist frame 3.4 Éric Stephany «ΔΡΟΜΟ ΨΗΧΟΠΑΦΗ», 2025 Found intercom, mp3 player, sound looping file 5. Benjamin Savi « In the future it is always raining », 2024 Photogravure chine-colle, inkjet on@paper 6. Palle Nielsen « Klage Sange », 1963 Woodcut 7. Frederik Egg «ΜΗΤΡΟΠΟΛΙΤΙΚΗ ΑΙΣΦΗΣΗ», 2025 Prints on IPhone LCD plast, drawing, DIY epoxy of Copenhagen city key, found objects 8. Éric Stephany «ΔΡΟΜΟ ΨΗΧΟΠΑΦΗ II», 2025 Found intercom, LED light 📷 by @frankholbein #exhibition #artexhibitions #athens

ATHENS IS CALLING 📞 🗣️ 💙 Among the elements revolving around the Polikatoikia Striptease Project initiated in 2018, between the marble sink and the rooftop railing, there is the intercom. Intercom systems, like the residents of the buildings that connect them, have a life of their own. Once their life is over, they are rarely recycled. Finding these remnants is a delicate and complex task. In a way, out of modesty, these old intercoms, which bear names of former residents, hide from view. They are absent from the recycling circuits, as if the fact that they carry surnames gave them a special status. Their strange melancholic cinematographic beauty undoubtedly comes from the fact that they sonically link those inside and those outside, those who are there and those who are not there anymore. « ΔΡΟΜΟ ΨΥΧΟΠΑΘΗ » will be shown next week in Athens! Stay tuned 💥 more info to come 💙 - - - ATHENS IS CALLING 📞 🗣️ 💙 Ανάμεσα στα στοιχεία που περιστρέφονται γύρω από το έργο Polikatoikia Striptease που ξεκίνησε το 2018, ανάμεσα στον μαρμάρινο νεροχύτη και το κιγκλίδωμα της ταράτσας, υπάρχει το θυροτηλέφωνο. Τα συστήματα ενδοεπικοινωνίας, όπως και οι κάτοικοι των κτιρίων που τα συνδέουν, έχουν τη δική τους ζωή. Μόλις τελειώσει η ζωή τους, σπάνια ανακυκλώνονται. Η εύρεση αυτών των υπολειμμάτων είναι ένα λεπτό και πολύπλοκο έργο. Κατά κάποιον τρόπο, από σεμνότητα, αυτές οι παλιές ενδοεπικοινωνίες, που φέρουν τα ονόματα των πρώην κατοίκων, κρύβονται από το οπτικό πεδίο. Απουσιάζουν από τα κυκλώματα ανακύκλωσης, λες και το γεγονός ότι φέρουν επώνυμα τους προσδίδει ένα ειδικό καθεστώς. Η παράξενη μελαγχολική κινηματογραφική ομορφιά τους προέρχεται αναμφίβολα από το γεγονός ότι συνδέουν ηχητικά τους μέσα και τους έξω, αυτούς που είναι εκεί και αυτούς που δεν είναι πια εκεί. Το « ΔΡΟΜΟ ΨΥΧΟΠΑΘΗ » θα προβληθεί την επόμενη εβδομάδα στην Αθήνα! Μείνετε συντονισμένοι 💥 περισσότερες πληροφορίες θα έρθουν 💙

Working notes * . . . . . . . . #sculpture #marble #modernarcheology #archeology #polikatoikia #πολυκατοικία #domestic #ecofriendlyliving #recycling #street #athenianstreets #foundobjects #raw #rawmaterials #sink #marblesink #pendelic #pendelicmarble #parthenon #athens #athina #leftovers #ericstephany

MELTING LEGACY II, 2020-2025 Pendelic marble 50.4 x 18 x 19 . . . . By the time this piece was found, cleaned, sculpted, sanded, kneaded, hours passed with its trail of fires and the generalized melting of stories and achievements. Hello February 2025. . . . #sculpture #marble #archeology #domestic #pendelic #melting #remains #leftovers #athens #polikatoikia #sink #marblesink #ericstephany

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