By taking over the wall, it changes its status: it leaves the realm of the object to enter that of space, responding to a broader need to reintroduce matter, gesture, and a form of unpredictability into our environments. Halfway between painting and sculpture, these works engage the viewer differently, more slowly, more attentively.
Rosi Mistou and Katrien Van der Schueren explore new dimensions of wall art at Galerie JAG
Discovered at PAD Paris in April 2026, the works presented by Galerie JAG fully participate in this new approach that transforms the wall into a space for experimentation. Between pictorial composition and relief, they demonstrate a unique attention to matter and how it captures light.
For Rosi Mistou, this presence is conveyed through a profoundly pictorial reading of ceramics. The artist composes her works like fragmented landscapes, made of assemblages of earthenware tiles where color flows freely. Each shade is developed from pigments, then revealed by a double firing under a transparent glaze – a process where the material always retains an element of the unexpected. In Dune of MarsThe intuitive brushstrokes structure an abstract landscape with fluid, almost weightless lines. The glazed surface captures the variations of light, revealing delicate textures, as if the earthenware retained something of the sand's warmth. With Methane DuneThe artist moves even further away from the frame to explore a freer form: the more open composition asserts an almost organic presence, where deep hues reveal the relief while the eye moves naturally, carried by the internal tensions of the piece. The surface is never static; it seems traversed by a slow movement, like the shifting surface of the dunes.
The work of Katrien Van der Schueren, a Belgian artist based in Los Angeles, operates on a different scale. Here, the wall is no longer a support but a volume in its own right. Working with raw materials such as plaster, wood, cement, or bronze, she creates monumental works, most often custom-made, designed to extend the space rather than simply overlay it. The surface becomes almost tactile, rough and delicate at the same time; its forms, rooted in quasi-ritualistic references, lend her creations a timeless dimension, somewhere between vestige and projection. In The Ark of us (2026), a vast wall composition, features sculpted reliefs that unfold like an enigmatic map, capturing light only to diffract it. What is most striking are the small bronze openings scattered throughout the work, discreet, almost secret, evoking a cabinet of curiosities concealed within the wall. The work is no longer read head-on: it is conceived in layers, in passages, literally giving the wall multiple dimensions.
Rosi Mistou: @rosi_mistou
Katrien Van der Schueren: katrienvanderschueren.com @katrienvanderschueren
JAG Gallery
6, avenue Victor-Hugo, Paris 16e
