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In 2020, we founded the curatorial duo CRO. Through the hybridization of technology and the living, we explore our mutant worlds in times of ecological emergency, from a molecular level to our socio-cultural constructs.
We position our curatorial projects outside of a sanitized and sealed white cube experience. Calling on image, writing, sound, texture and smell, we wish to foster interactive and multisensorial ecosystems of lifeforms and non lifeforms. Integrating our digital and physical living spaces, we disseminate these stimuli from the exhibition space to the teenage blogspot, from the paper of a magazine to the soundwaves of a podcast.
This year, our research focuses on the neo-medieval, intersecting themes from two of our recent projects. Firstly, the Fluxus Art Projects laureate exhibition I cried at the end of a manga at Le Château, Aubenas (2024-2025): a pop culture fable set in a middle age castle, where contemporary views rejoin non-linearly with past perceptions, focusing on our empathy and relation to strangeness, abolishing the divide between generations. Secondly, our essay The Techno-Vernacular Wave published in Zérodeux magazine (2023), focuses on reclaiming and reasserting vernacular –and often invisibilized– knowledge and practices by contemporary artists in the digital era. Approached through a microhistorical lens, our neo-medieval research aims to delve into the 'dungeon' of history and uncover why and how it influences contemporary minds.
Among our recent projects: the group shows And the wasp entered the fig at Spiaggia Libera, Paris (2024) ; I cried at the end of a manga. Chapter 1 at Galerie Edouard Manet / Ecole munici-pale des beaux-arts, Gennevilliers (2024) ; our essayThe Techno-Vernacular Wave (part 1+2) published in Zérodeux (n°105-106, 2023) ; SENSATION, our podcast on Radio Poush taking the form of a sensorial portrait of our guests.
Our recent talks have been held at: Université Paris 3 Sorbonne-Nouvelle (2025), K11 Art Fondation Salon x Asia Now (2025), Art-o-rama (2025), Le Château (2025) –The uncanny valley: from kawaii to monstruous is now online–, Art Explora / Cité internationale des arts (2024), Galerie Edouard Manet Gennevilliers (2024), Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (2022).
Press review (selection) – about CRO:
Alexia Pierre, in La belle revue (2025)
Patrice Joly, in Zérodeux (2025)
CRO interviewed on the radio Frequence 7 (2024)
Mahaut Delobelle, in Konbini (2024)
Nicolas Bourriaud, in Beaux Arts Magazine (2024)
Victoria Moreau Cortés, in Fisheye Immersive (2024)
Sarah Matia Pasqualetti, in Zérodeux (2024)
CRO interviewed by Emma Louise Rixhon, in Office (2024)
Guillaume Lasserre, in Zérodeux (2024)


Félicien Grand d'Esnon (b. 1996)


Alexis Loisel-Montambaux (b. 1995)
I work at Centre Pompidou-Metz, where I am in charge of exhibitions and research.
After several experiences in France and abroad (Hayward Gallery, Collezione Peggy Guggenheim, Collection Lambert), I was exhibition and editorial projects assistant at the Fondation Carmignac (2022-2023), where I was involved in the preparation of exhibitions and catalogs - Le Songe d'Ulysse (2022) and L'île intérieure (2023) - as well as exhibitions for the Carmignac Photojournalism Award in Paris, at the United Nations headquarters in New York, and in the Democratic Republic of Congo (Bukavu, Lubumbashi, Kinshasa).
Recently, I worked at Fondation Cartier and provided production assistance on the exhibition Matthew Barney, SECONDARY (2024).
I am an occasional contributor to Zérodeux magazine.
I completed a BA in History at King's College London, followed by an MA in Curation at the Courtauld Institute of Art. My BA thesis focused on the diasporic mechanisms of dub and reggae in England, and my MA on the use of popular music in modern and contemporary art museums.
My sensibilities are rooted in globalized popular culture and the communities it spawns, from anime meme pages to the new political cultures of the techno scene.
I work as part of the curatorial team at MO.CO. Montpellier Contemporain, where I assist the curators in the conception of exhibitions and catalogs, including Ana Mendieta. Search for Origin (2023) ; Huma Bhabha. A Fly Appeared and Disappeared (2023) and Kader Attia. Descent into Paradise (2024).
I have co-curated the Art & Science season: a group show titled Sense Unknown at MO.CO., and the solo shows of Pierre Unal-Brunet. Prodrome as well as Ivana Bašić. Metempsychosis at MO.CO. Panacée (2025).
I have moderated discussions with artists:
Joey Holder (2025), Pierre Unal-Brunet (2025).
I previously worked at the Fonds d'art contem-porain - Paris Collections (2020-2023) on collection management, research and loans, and as a rapporteur to the acquisition committees.
After studying art history and law (La Sorbonne, Panthéon-Assas, Lyon 3), I completed a double master's degree in cultural management (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, ESCP Business School Paris). My dissertation focused on audience engagement and development strategies in contemporary art biennials.
I have a particular sensibility for interdisciplinary and transmedia creations, including moving images, organic matter, haptic, inhalable and ingestible substances.
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