Ternura / Fuerza
May 17 - September 7, 2025 Academie Conti • Dijon, FraNCE
Galerie Sardine is thrilled to present Ternura / Fuerza (Tenderness / Force), an exhibition at Academie Conti, in the legendary vineyard Romanée Conti by invitation of Le Consortium Museum, Dijon.
The exhibition centers around the work of four artists: Jane Corrigan, Ana Benaroya, Alice Mackler & Sylvie Auvray.
Their work exists in an interplay of polarities, navigating the persistent tug between tenderness and force. Using diverse formal and conceptual strategies, these artists tackle aspects of their identities with both playfulness and bravado. Their work pushes forward with a kind of brute, in-your-face gesture that reads expressively over-the-top—at times fierce, at times naive, even funny—while maintaining a raw, unruly kind of violence, an untamable force.
The exhibition invites viewers to examine this terrain of contradictions. Traditional notions of beauty are both embraced and subverted as these artists excavate personal histories and cultural contexts through their distinctive visual vocabularies. Their works refuse to be domesticated or contained, instead pulsating with a vitality that refuses easy assimilation. They exist in a field of their own, an open space that is reverberating with life, and a profound sense of play.
