Galerie Rachel Hardouin: Three exhibitions exploring absence, nostalgia and melancholy in Paris

Rachel Hardouin Gallery in Paris brings together the artists Éléonore Guiraud, Chloé Bertschy, and Alessandro Ferraro Manzotti for three exhibitions dedicated to lack, nostalgia, and melancholy, from April 27 to May 2, 2026.

The Galerie Rachel Hardouin in Paris presents three exhibitions linked by a shared artistic meditation on absence, nostalgia and melancholy, with works by Éléonore Guiraud, Chloé Bertschy and Alessandro Ferraro Manzotti, from Monday 27 April to Saturday 2 May 2026. In this group show, visitors encounter a dialogue between multi‑technique drawing, photography and installation, centered on absence, memory and intimate or environmental traumas. The opening on 28 April at 6pm will be held in the artists’ presence. Also note that a conference dedicated to solastalgia is scheduled for Wednesday 29 April at 6pm.

The exhibition US 13-26, helmed by Éléonore Guiraud and Chloé Bertschy, blends multi-technique drawing with photography and links artistic creation to the feelings stirred by absence. The project also explores art as "a possible therapy to overcome traumas linked to absence". Reflecting its theme, this exhibition examines the impact of emptiness, memory, and the wounds left by what is no longer there, through a two-voice visual approach.

For his part, Alessandro Ferraro Manzotti presents casa mia ha un sapore di mandorle, an exhibition built around photography, installation, and a book signing. The project is extended by a conference on solastalgia scheduled for Wednesday, April 29 at 6 p.m., featuring Joana Matos, child and adolescent psychiatry specialist, Camille Guichard, filmmaker and photographer, and Alessandro Manzotti. The discussion will explore traumas linked to climate and environmental change, connecting contemporary creation, mental health, and the perception of a world in transformation.

Gathered under one roof, these three exhibitions offer different approaches to themes touching on absence, memory, and the changes of our era. Between drawings, photographs, installations and a public discussion, this gathering at the Rachel Hardouin Gallery invites visitors to roam freely through these worlds and form their own reading of the works.

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