AHA is hosting a sale of artist-made pieces. Lamps, rugs, drawings, paintings, photographs: a selection of 40 works ideal for elevating your days, lighting up your nights, and making lovely gifts for the people you cherish.
With Paul Bony, Aristide Gripon, Max Exotic, Mercedes Semino – Groupe des Futurs Mariés
From December 12 to 14, 2025 - 43 rue de Lancry Paris 10
Paul Bony
The son of a hardware-shop owner and a postman, Paul has been tinkering with images since his first football matches in the suburbs of Caen. Restless but no less educated, he stumbles into Paris to begin a film career. Rap music videos, porn films, cat-food commercials — he roams far from the red carpets. A decisive encounter with a Japanese alchemist unfolds the world for him. He isolates himself for an entire year to assemble his first non-functional machines, blending photographs and debris. For the first time, he is showing several of his book-objects, which bear witness to his sideways journey because, as he likes to describe his practice: “unfortunately my style is not having one.”
Max Exotic
Max Exotic grew up in Alsace, where the sauerkraut is good. After studying at ENSA Bourges, he moves to Paris to launch an ambitious career in rug-paintings. Alas, procrastination wins out — but Max Exotic doesn’t let it get him down and keeps scrolling on social media. This is how he ends up creating his tufted rugs in a style related to the “ignorant” movement.
Aristide Gripon
Aristide Gripon was born in 1992 in Rennes. He spent several years as a child before entering university to study art and philosophy. During that time, he painted countless things of all sizes and colors: faces, arches, chariots, eggs, planets, branches with or without leaves, asparagus, hearths, bouquets, nudes, cubes… He now lives in Paris, trying as best he can to follow Robert Filliou’s difficult advice: “Whatever you do, do something else.”
Mercedes Semino
Mercedes Semino worked in fashion before attending the Beaux-Arts in Paris. Today she restores monuments, cleans stone, and makes ceramic bedside lamps because she loves ceramics — and because a lamp is the last thing you turn off before falling asleep. She draws, paints, and builds miniature architectures, somewhere between shape memory and construction sites, with little rigor and lots of color, because we need beauty in life, light in the night, etc.
