Gratacap Samuel was born in France in 1982 and received his artistic training at the College of Fine Arts in Marseille. Since 2007, he leads a reflection on the representation of north-south geopolitical, south-south and transitional areas on the map of migration routes in the Mediterranean. His investigative work and immersion is based on the photographed and filmed image. It has already materialized several projects in transit zones, especially in the administrative detention center of Canet (Marseille, 2007-2008), on the island of Lampedusa (2010), and lived for two years between France and Tunisia . In 2013, he won the SFR-Le Bal young photographers Award for his project in Tunisia’s Choucha refugee camp (project co-financed by the CNAP / Support Fund for Documentary Photography, 2012) which will result in a solo exhibition at the ball at the end of 2014.

Léa Bismuth Author and art critic, her practice combines literature and contemporary art, and explores the possibilities of writing the exhibition, from essay to story. She has been writing in artpress since 2006. Nourished with philosophy, she initiated the curatorial research program La Traversée des Inquiétudes (a trilogy of exhibitions after Georges Bataille, Labanque de Béthune, from 2016 to 2019). Since 2013, she has curated about twenty exhibitions. In May 2019, she published La Besogne des Images at Editions Filigranes, and co-curator of the exhibition Dans l’atelier la création at work at the Musée Delacroix Paris.