Congratulations to Gil Lekh, alumnus of the 2023 graduating class, 2026 recipient of Une Relève Méditerranéenne.
As part of the 2026 Mediterranean Season, the Parallèle association, L’École(s) du Sud, and four partners from art schools and the MIRAMAR network—the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts, the DARET center, the National Institute of Fine Arts of Tétouan, and Les Ateliers Sauvages—are joining forces to present Une Relève Méditerranéenne.
A collective and transdisciplinary exhibition, Une Relève Méditerranéenne will bring together 16 emerging Mediterranean artists and will take place from May 21 to August 9, 2026, in Marseille on the 5th floor of the Friche la Belle de Mai. An associated public program will be offered.
The curation of the exhibition has been entrusted to curator Soukaina Aboulaoula.
Gil Lekh
An artist-researcher, his work is rooted in his multiple experiences. From a family of migrants, he trained in alternative environments and worked as a construction laborer. From this background, he explores experiences by combining them with research. His practice explores the connections between memory, transmission, and the colonial continuum through a poetics of vulnerability—understood as a force of relation, repair, and transformation. His preferred materials related to dwelling reflect an attention to gestures of repair and to the memory contained in these materials. Through sculpture, installation, publishing, and participatory formats, he opens spaces where buried memories can resurface, where historical fractures find recognition and continuity. His research combines art, humanities, and popular education, inviting us to rethink the commons in order to sketch out livable presents and desirable futures yet to come.