Margherita Artoni

Yuri Yuan (b. 1996, Harbin, China; raised in Singapore), a New York-based painter whose figurative practice explores the subtle tensions between the familiar and the uncanny.

Savannah Marie Harris explores the inner world of memory, fantasy, and spirituality through abstract paintings that bring together nuanced colors, light, and textures. Her layered canvases transform personal experiences into shifting compositions where gestures, material, and fragments of color evoke worlds between the tangible and the imagined. Through processes of accumulation and dissolution, she creates surfaces that hold traces of experience while remaining open to change.

Daisy Parris’s paintings emerge from a tension between language and abstraction,
immediacy and reflection, gesture and structure. Colour, fragments of text, collage and vigorous painterly marks coexist on the canvas, creating images whose emotional intensity resists a single interpretation. Words enter the paintings as traces of memory, thought and lived experience, while colour acquires a psychological force that exceeds any fixed vocabulary of emotions.

In an age saturated by images, Pam Evelyn’s paintings propose a different experience of
looking: physical, prolonged and deeply attentive to the life of the surface. Her expansive
canvases emerge through dense accumulations of oil, where colour, gesture, erasure and
matter remain visibly entangled. Occupying an unstable territory between abstraction,
figuration and landscape, forms appear, dissolve and return.

Sarah Martin-Nuss is a New York-based artist whose practice spans painting, drawing,
performance and sound. Her layered compositions combine gestural marks and shifting
fields of colour, creating atmospheric images that evoke the rhythms and complexity of the
natural world.

In a new series on ArtDependence Margherita Artoni examines what happens before a painting finds its form. Before an image takes shape, there is an intuition, a sensation, a memory, or an encounter with the world. There are questions without answers, ideas not yet fully understood, and possibilities that have not yet found their form. Painting begins in this uncertain territory, where looking becomes thinking and thinking gradually becomes a physical act.

Emma Masut's practice unfolds between drawing and painting, through images that take shape from impressions, associations and enduring interests.

“One way to subvert a hegemonic technology is to co-opt it,” David Salle declares. At
Thaddaeus Ropac Paris Pantin, The Venice Paintings explores the encounter between
artificial intelligence and the material intelligence of painting.

What survives of the past depends on what is preserved, how it is displayed, and the
meanings it is made to carry. In The Trace of Things, Dominique Fung’s first solo exhibition in Italy, presented by MASSIMODECARLO in Milan, paintings and drawings explore the relationship between material persistence and cultural memory. Objects and represented forms participate in the construction of history, their significance shifting as they move through different contexts of interpretation.

On view at Thaddaeus Ropac’s Paris Marais gallery from 19 October to 23 December
2026, Winter Sun marks Jordan Casteel’s first exhibition in France and her most significant presentation in Europe to date.