Déstructuralisme Figuratif
Déstructuralisme Figuratif
Visual Artist
Founder of DF Art Project / President
of DF Association
Ronnie Jiang was born in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia She obtained her BA Fashion Design degree in Taiwan. She came to France in 2008. In 2013, she launched her artistic career, after working on several projects as a fashion designer
Her figurative works are fragmented, of obvious incoherence, act beyond double-edged, somewhere between surreal enchantment and uncanny enigma, where we meet the icons in the art world, the characters of her graphic illustrations evolve alongside nonsensical, yet familiar animals. Her expressive portraits have one thing in common – they are perfectly identifiable due to their characters’ grey, diaphanous skin. They collide in the world of dance, storytelling, globalized society.
She has been participating in exhibitions around the world, such as in Paris, London, Bucharest, Macau, and Tokyo. She likes to bring her state of art expression more in social reflection, political awareness with a humorous touch.
Ronnie is the creator of the artistic project Déstructuralisme Figuratif.
She carries the visions and ambitions of the artists that she carefully selects at the international level.
Please visit her website for more information:
Journalist, Art Critic
Co-Founder / Editor Consultant
of DF Association
Caroline Canault obtained her Master Degrees in Information & Communication and in Contemporary Art Market.
Following her first television collaborations in TV’s youth programs in France, she focused on print media and the Web.
She is a press correspondent specialized in art and works in Brussels, New York, and Barcelona, she also works in culture and lifestyles for the French press such as Publihebdos, Next-Liberation, LesEchos.fr, Espace Art’s Magazine, All The Content News Agency.
Caroline claims her double functions as art criticism and journalist. The first allows her the privileged witness of the creation, to visit frequently the studios of emerging artists and to defend their works. Her position as a journalist gives her the possibility with more space, to analyze, to put into perspective the cultural and artistic information for the various press media in which she collaborates.
For DF project, she contributes her sophisticated vision on the selected artists and develops the content strategy.
Please visit her blog for more information:
Correspondent of Fine Arts Academy, Architecture Section of the Institut de France
Honorary President of DF Association
Graduated from the Rennes University Institute of Technology in 1970 (Civil Engineering) and from the National Conservatory of Arts and Crafts in Caen in 1977-1978 (civil constructions), Jean-François Collignon was a Design Engineer and sales manager in several companies specializing in metal construction, petrochemical engineering, engineering structures, waterproofing, etc. including the company Eiffel Métallique Construction.
Since 2007, he has been the founding President of the Europe-Asia Exchange Center Association, the purpose of which is the implementation, promotion and development of international, national and regional artistic cultural exchanges, valuing knowledge, artistic skill, traditional and contemporary techniques.
Chevalier of Arts & Letters, he is a cultural advisor of Hangzhou – Zhejiang province in China. He is also executive vice-president of the Sino-French Association of Calligraphy and Painting and a member of the Association of French & Chinese Experts – AEFC.
Jean-François Collignon is elected since May 26, 2004, Correspondent of the Fine Arts Academy in Architecture Section at the L’Institut de France.
Architectural and building designer / Visual artist
Vice-President and scenographer of the DF Association
Jérôme Royer is a painter who oscillates between the figurative and the abstract, his portraits combine the real with the unreal. He draws from a young age, seeing art as a way to have fun and express himself.
He turned to building, worked in a construction company, and then became a building and architectural designer. He will be strongly encouraged on social networks for the quality of his work.
He then draws more and more and begins to exhibit his drawings. His work is the result of research into quantum meditation focused on the interconnection of beings and the universe.
The practice of martial arts, including boxing, meditation, and tai chi chuan, influences his practice of painting, from his body language to the technique used. His work has earned him numerous personal and group exhibitions in France and abroad, notably in Belgium and Australia.
Discover Jérôme’s universe on :
Photographer, sculptor, videographer, musician
Scenographer and administrator of the DF Association’s website
Brno Del Zou is a photographer, sculptor, videographer, musician software designer, video, sound, and interactive installations ‘creator.
After obtained his doctorate in theoretical mechanics (1990), Bruno worked at the University of Poitiers (1994-2006) as a teacher and researcher in Information and Communication and university’s researcher laboratory on mediatized learning in creation and management, Brno Del Zou devoted himself exclusively to his artistic activities.
His “Photo-sculptures”, as well as his videography creations, proceed from the same process of fragmentation and reconstruction of the body. Deformations, perspectives, scale games … Brno juggles the reality and the imaginary, the troubled, and the tangible.
His studio “Le Mouton Noir” in Poitiers is also a gallery, presents international artists, the gallery will be extended by the opening of a new space where artistic expression can be expressed in all its forms from autumn 2020.
Brno shares his experience in scenography and web strategy within the
DF ART PROJECT.
Discover Brno’s works at brnodelzou.fr
Visit his studio at galerie-mouton-noir.fr
Visual artist
Webdesigner and website administrator of
DF Association
art-now is a multimedia designer, passionate about graphics, he likes to play with words and images. He expresses himself through creation in all its forms by making singular illustrations that combine both geometric lines inspired by minimalism and a more contemporary style from current digital creation. From its most at a young age, he was attracted to artistic disciplines, in particular drawing.
In 1998, he follows training in desktop publishing which opens the doors to professionals in the world of images. He often likes to refer to the collective unconscious by reappropriating the great classics of painting and pop icons to offer his graphic reinterpretation combining an approach linked to generative art.
art-now performs a research work on the processes of deconstruction and destructuring, wishing thus give several levels of reading depending on whether one is near or far from his works.
Discover the world of art-now on:
www.artmajeur.com/art-now or on instagram : @artnowfromversailles
Sculptor
Scenographer of the sculptures of the DF Association
Franck interprets our current world with these influences, good or bad. His research results in the creation of round, compressed, diverted or even distorted shapes. His pieces are systematically worked in the ambivalence of abstraction and figuration. From an abstract form that he deforms by his gesture, an animal or human appearance appears.
When he chooses a figurative model, he metamorphoses it to make it more abstract. Both in motion and still, sometimes playful and sometimes tactile, his process bends to the constraints of matter and contingency.
The integration of his hands into his works marks his imprint, the hold of time, the formatting that we undergo throughout our lives.
Franck mainly evokes the animal world to represent humans in all their diversity, complexity, and behavior.
He has exhibited his work since 1996 in France and abroad (Germany, Austria, United Kingdom, Japan, Canada and China.)
He is a founding member of ArtCeram “Terres d’Empreintes” which organizes biennials on ceramics in SALT from Sèvres in Hauts-de-Seine.
Discover the universe of Franck on :
Sculptor
Scenography Team / Interim Treasurer of the DF Association
Jifie’s imagination, influenced by the currents of raw art and surrealism, is rooted in dreams and the irrational, constantly confronting reality in search of a dreamlike and phantasmagorical representation of the world around him, where bodies express their sensuality and spirits their revolts. He also draws from symbols and myths, illustrating the doubts and questions that permeate our experience. He works with materials and uses their constraints to highlight irregularities and discontinuities reflecting our imbalances, engaging the viewer’s gaze. Each sculpture, through the contrast of materials, smooth or rough textures, and forms that are sometimes fluid and soft, sometimes chaotic and torn, is an attempt to penetrate the mysteries of the human body, its unspoken and forbidden aspects, or the duality of man/woman and physical relationships. It invites exploration and the rediscovery of the emotion of primordial caress and the most archaic impulses. He regularly presents his work at solo exhibitions in his studio and participates in group exhibitions in France and abroad.
Discover JIFIE’s universe at:
or on instagram : @jifiesculpteur
Founder of the e-tribArt School | Digital Artist
Communications Team of the DF Association
Graduated from the IPGS school in Strasbourg as a geophysicist (with additional training in Astrophysics), Laurent develops an approach to reading the surrounding world and structures his relationship with forms. The appearance of the physical world, which is far from what it seems, offers keys to his creativity. Graduating from EAC Paris in 1995, Laurent founded and directed the Nicéphore Center in Montpellier, a center for the exhibition and training of both analog and digital photography. Practicing photography since the age of 5, he also organizes exhibitions of both analog and digital photography, as well as interactive exhibits at this center. From 2005 onwards, Laurent fully transitioned into digital creation, working as a professional trainer in private schools and also as a creator of interactive digital visuals. In 2007, he founded the e-tribArt School, an online teaching institution in the field of 3D Graphic Design. Today, drawing from his experience as a photographer, Laurent combines captured and digitally transformed reality to present a new image, a new reality. With imagined possibilities, Laurent’s digital art brings together figurative elements in restructured compositions. After fragmenting and transforming figurative forms, and beyond a fixed monocular vision, the recomposition of these forms reveals a new prolific coincidence.
Discover Laurent’s universe on:
and on instagram: @laurent_bdeb
Designer – Sculptor – Painter
Press Communication, Member Management of the DF Association
Artistically trained after completing a preparatory workshop at Les Ateliers Hourdé, she pursued studies in product design and interior architecture. A graduate of ESDI (École Supérieure de Design), she specialized in product design, interior architecture, and later Retail. She worked in the beauty, fashion, and decoration sectors, creating objects, furniture, and staging products in France and internationally.
Sculpture emerged as a natural progression—a parallel and more personal path alongside her professional career. From the age of 20, she has modeled materials; for the past 20 years, she has carved stone, playing with balance, the fragility of materials, and blending techniques across various workshops.
She creates ephemeral characters, emerging from nowhere—without fixed reality—born from paper scraps, strings, wires, or molded in clay, carved in stone, or simply drawn and painted. Her quest: to transcend the impossible, exploring interplay of voids, shadows and light, balance and imbalance. Multifaceted, each viewer will bring their own perspective to these tension-filled creations.
Discover Sylvie’s universe on:
lemennchabot.fr and on instagram: @SYLVIE_LEMENNCHABOT
Poet – Painter-Calligrapher
Institutional Relations of the DF association
After training in engraving in Grenoble, Chantal Robillard encountered a Korean painting master who taught her calligraphy according to traditional Chinese principles (using a soft goat hair brush…). This liberation of the pictorial gesture enabled her to explore landscapes of nature, but also human landscapes—the multiple inner faces, the visages of cosmopolitan crowds, the profusion of dancing bodies escaping society’s oppressive norms.
She seeks to express intimate and primal emotions hidden behind the masks of family life, institutions, and media…
The fragmentation of the self through countless faces transforms, through painting and the interplay of colors, into unity and harmony. Segmented or stylized bodies rediscover their primal energy, expressing a never-before-seen dance—like so many signs of a new world.
Discover Chantal’s universe on:
robillard-puvinel.fr and on instagram: @SYLVIE_LEMENNCHABOT
Visual Artist
Communication Team of DF Association
Karine Langevin (KJL), a French visual artist specializing in resin and mixed media techniques, which she deploys in a distinctive Pop Art style. A graduate in Visual Arts, she has dedicated herself to her practice since 2005, creating works where matter and colour condense emotion.
Her paintings, conceived as visual narratives, reveal hidden clues and translucent surfaces with glossy reliefs. The female portrait, embodying character and light, is at the heart of her artistic exploration. Based in Gif-sur-Yvette (south of Paris), she has been represented by several galleries since 2019 and exhibits both in France and internationally.
Discover Karine’s world on:
karinelangevin.com and on Instagram: @painter.karine.langevin.kjl
Information Systems Consultant / Painter
Communication Team of the DF association
NeB studied cellular biology and animal physiology, followed by an engineering degree in industrial engineering. He has practiced drawing since early childhood and experimented with writing in Paris’ early slam poetry scenes. While expatriated in the United States, he discovered painting in 2006 and exhibited in 2010 at a gallery in Old City Philadelphia.
In 2023, his encounter with Jérôme Royer enthusiastically introduced him to figurative destructuralisme. This opened the possibility to distort reality and extend dreams.
Driven primarily by an almost childlike pleasure in painting and creating, his work seeks a purified poetry—a blend of abstraction and graphic design—to guide a journey through our humanity. A path through life in its biological definition, a reflection on wholeness and circularity. Our confrontation with the void, where colors create contrasts to explore injustice, identity, or the permeation of fantasy into reality. Colors exist here to carry hope. He paints “eye-catchers,” apparitions behind closed eyelids—retinal persistences that accompany us in reverie and beyond the contours of reality.
Discover NeB’s universe on Instagram: @nebben_art
Photo Artist
Scenography Team of the DF association
Edwige K, after a professional career far removed from art, yet following years spent admiring, collecting, and absorbing art in all its forms, discovered her own artistic universe through photography. She directs her gaze towards the world, life, others… the small things that make up our daily existence. But she also (especially?) develops more personal, even intimate work, essential to her, on the theme of passage/transition. Edwige K places great importance on movement, and thus on blur; her images, always in color like life itself, are rarely static and become deconstructed as a result.
“I insist, I don’t take photos, I create images. Without retouching, but within my own poetic universe of colors; technique matters little to me. Only emotion guides me.” Her use of the photographic medium leads her to develop several practices, from digital to Polaroid, including photographic transfer, cyanotype printing, and even assembling scenes in the form of slideshows, sometimes in collaboration with other musician artists. She enjoys experimenting and blending these different techniques. Edwige K lives and works in Brittany, but presents her work far beyond.
Discover Edwige’s universe on:
www.edwige-k.fr and on instagram: @edwige_k
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