Grant to support French Caribbean and Amazonian contemporary creation

With La Station Culturelle & unRepresented

Paris, France

2025

Jordan Beal

The first grant to support French Caribbean and Amazonian contemporary creation Rubis Mécénat and La Station Culturelle, in partnership with unRepresented by a ppr oc he, is awarded to Jordan Beal.

Presented by Matilde dos Santos Ferreira, a curator based in Martinique, Jordan Beal was chosen by a jury  composed of Pascal Beausse (curator, head of the photography collection at CNAP), Laurence Maynier (director of the Fondation des Artistes), Raphaëlle Stopin (director of the Centre photographique de Rouen), Emilia Genuardi (founding director of a ppr oc he & unRepresented), Lorraine Gobin (director of Rubis Mécénat), and Éline Gourgues (co-director of La Station Culturelle).

The artist will present his work at the unRepresented salon in Paris from 4 to 6 April 2025, and to benefit from a tailor-made programme of professional meetings designed to support the development of their artistic career.

This production and distribution grant aims to promote the dynamism of contemporary Caribbean and Amazonian creation in the Hexagon, while addressing the inequalities linked to the visibility and mobility of artists from these territories.

Jordan Beal

Jordan Beal (b. 1991, Martinique) evolves on the edge of image and photography, reality and imagination, his work blends techniques and substances, site-specific visions and collective abstractions.

Rooted in an experimental plastic expertise and influenced by his practice of musical composition, the artist manipulates the photographic negative - through submersion, chemical reaction, burial, double exposure or direct cutting - to reveal its tangible and poetic nature. Creating new ways of looking at the world, his works explore the past and present, taking a free and powerful look at the concepts of nature and territory.

He has taken part in many group exhibitions in the Caribbean, and his work has been featured in monographic exhibitions such as Pour faire le portrait d’une fleur, at Tropiques Atrium (2022) or Non-Lieux, at Patio 19 (Martinique, 2021). In 2023, he exhibited at the Biennale des Rencontres Photo de Guyane (cf. Éric Karsenty, Fisheye magazine #63). In January 2025, his Linéament series was presented at Le Hangar (Brussels) in the AImagine exhibition curated by Michel Poivert.